Situation: I have a kde 3.1.3 2screen Xinerama layout on 2 gfx cards I have have various shortcuts in kde, one for 'konsole --nomenubar --noframe --notoolbar --noscrollbar --geometry 600' (ctrl + r) and one for '/usr/bin/MozillaFirebird' (ctrl + e) Problem: the 'ctrl + e' one works perfectly, but as soon as I use the 'ctrl + r' one (which I do a lot ;)) the system hangs for 5 seconds (100% CPU can't do anything etc.) just before that I see a Shell - Konsole <n> in my taskbar but it doesn't appear where my mouse is (as it did in kde-3.1.2) the most annoying thing is that it appears fullscreen on a 'phantom' third monitor, when I click 2 times on the taskbar I see it 'come down (minimize)' from the left (the phantomscreen) I can left click on it and choose maximize to get it back on my main screen. it's not the syntax for the command that the short cut uses because when I do the same command in a console I get the new konsole BUT when I use the Kmenu it appears again in the 'phantom screen' I can't find anything in the logs :( so I cant post those. the only thing I can add is this: exci@ws exci $ konsole --nomenubar --noframe --notoolbar --noscrollbar --geometry 600 konsole: cannot chown /dev/pts/3. Reason: Operation not permitted konsole_grantpty: determined a strange device name `/dev/ptmx'. konsole: chownpty failed for device /dev/pts/3::/dev/pts/3. : This means the session can be eavesdroped. : Make sure konsole_grantpty is installed in : /usr/kde/3.1/bin/ and setuid root. konsole_grantpty: determined a strange device name `/dev/ptmx'. that is what it 'says' when I use a console to open konsole. I am aware of the very strange bug, and Im not surprised if you don't understand what I am saying :), but please say so so that I can add more info. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use the kmenu shortcut for konsole --nomenubar --noframe --notoolbar --noscrollbar --geometry 600 Actual Results: 5 seconds extreme load + conole in 'phantom screen' Expected Results: a konsole opent at my mouse pointer ws root # emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ " CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 -dnd -emacs faad -leim -lucid mad xvid dvd xinerama -gtk2 pic acpi acpi4linux 3dnow aalib alsa avi crypt dga encode gif gtk imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lcms mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt qtmt quicktime readline sdl spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype wmf X xml xml2 xmms xv" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mmmx -m3dnow -msse" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mmmx -m3dnow -msse" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache fixpackages"
konsole_grantpty: determined a strange device name `/dev/ptmx'. Look at the files in /dev/pts. Do they all ahve the same permissions? Is konsole_grantpty in /usr/kde/3.1/bin and is it setuid root? Looks like there's some strange stuff going on with devfs here - most likely with the 2.6 kernel. My guess is that konsole hasn't been updated yet to deal with 2.6 devices. Does a 2.4 kernel work?
first of all the permissions: exci@ws exci $ ls -alh /dev/pts total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 .. crw------- 1 exci tty 136, 0 Aug 7 12:57 0 crw------- 1 exci tty 136, 1 Aug 7 12:57 1 crw------- 1 exci tty 136, 2 Aug 7 13:02 2 both on 2.6 as 2.4 kernel (2.4.21 vanilla) the 2.4 kernel: Again if I use the kde button --> system --> konsole the system hangs for 5 seconds I found out that this is 5 seconds of 100% load and 44% usage of memory by X great fun with vmware/win2k on ;) --> swapping 10 minutes, I lost complete control of my system (irc pinged out etc.) and loads of 12+ I also tried to start konsole (wihout the start parms etc.) via aterm (which I love since konsole stopped working for me ;)) it started at once on the right screen. 2 seconds ago I tried it via aterm with all the parms, again no errors what so ever and starting normally So part of the problem is devfs/devpts of 2.6 but still my konsole behaves abnormal or is this because I use the 2.5 kernel since 2.5.45 and almost all my apps are compiled with it ?
ow btw, seems that I am the only one with this problem so give it a low priority since I fell in love with aterm ;)
It definitely looks like this is an issue between konsole and the newness of the 2.5/2.6 kernel stuff. I think you should probably file this at bugs.kde.org and see if they have any known resolution to it, as this will become a much bigger problem once 2.6 becomes more popular. Thanks for the heads up, though.
