I'm using gentoo with gnome, 2.6.11 kernel, and udev.

I just did an update with emerge, it only updated two system packages, but I don't remember what they were. Now my gnome-terminal won't work as a user. It's a problem with my file permissions in /dev, because if I either run gnome as root, or change permissions for all files in /dev, it works fine, but reverts to non-working on reboot?

I get an error dialog that tells me it could not create the child process, then I just get a gui window with no command prompt.

I need to know which file the permissions are wrong for, and how to change it permanently.

Make sure your regular user is part of the "tty" user group. That can help.

To see what you emerged, type tail -n 20 /var/log/emerge.log | grep -i completed


Håkan

Thanks, that seems to have worked, I guess the update somehow changed the groups my user belonged to.