In KDE 3.2.2 as root everything works perfect and i can normally open the konsole, but when logged in as a user and want to open the konsole it opens the konsole window but the cursor just keeps blinking and there is no shell, everything else is ok. I tried various things but nothing solved this problem.
I would check: the output of "ps aux" when the konsole is stuck, the output of "ls -l /dev/pt*" do you have sys-apps/utempter installed?
the output of "ps aux" in dependence to the konsole in kde says: "kdeinit: konsole", thats it and the output of "ls -l /dev/pt*" doesnt really say something i can do with it, i am not that used to linux...
Well, it could be useful if you could copy and paste the output of those commands, and maybe of 'emerge info'. And prepare to 'emerge dev-util/strace' since you don't fear to get used to linux, do you? ;)
I'm having this same problem. Another problem that may or may not be related is that after typing in the root password for kuser I get the message... The program 'su' is not found! Make sure your PATH is set correctly. This is from 2004.2 cd installed and emerged over the weekend. Running full udev if that makes any difference.
Yes, I have sys-apps/utempter installed ver 0.5.5.5. Is that bad? Now the output for ls -l /dev/pt* I did for both root and my user login. The only difference is for root it had these extra lines... crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 0 Aug 30 20:40 0 crw------- 1 root tty 136, 1 Aug 30 20:47 1 For ls -l /dev/pt* USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 1340 472 ? S 20:37 0:00 init [3] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN 20:37 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< 20:37 0:01 [events/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< 20:37 0:00 [khelper] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< 20:37 0:00 [kacpid] root 21 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< 20:37 0:00 [kblockd/0] root 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 20:37 0:00 [khubd] root 34 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 20:37 0:00 [pdflush] root 35 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 20:37 0:00 [pdflush] root 37 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< 20:37 0:00 [aio/0] root 36 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 20:37 0:00 [kswapd0] root 40 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 20:37 0:00 [kseriod] root 167 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< 20:37 0:00 [ata/0] root 168 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 20:37 0:00 [khpsbpkt] root 171 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 20:37 0:00 [knodemgrd_0] root 210 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 20:37 0:00 [kjournald] root 5898 0.0 0.1 1440 592 ? S 20:38 0:00 metalog [MASTER] root 5911 0.0 0.0 1404 476 ? S 20:38 0:00 metalog [KERNEL] root 6399 0.0 0.3 4648 1584 ? S 20:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd distcc 6473 0.0 0.1 1900 676 ? SN 20:38 0:00 /usr/bin/distccd --pid-file /var/run/distccd/distccd.pid -N 15 --user distcc distcc 6474 0.0 0.1 1900 676 ? SN 20:38 0:00 /usr/bin/distccd --pid-file /var/run/distccd/distccd.pid -N 15 --user distcc root 6695 0.0 0.1 1528 636 ? S 20:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron root 6734 0.0 0.1 1380 568 tty3 S 20:38 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux root 6735 0.0 0.1 1380 568 tty4 S 20:38 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux root 6737 0.0 0.1 1380 568 tty6 S 20:38 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux distcc 6793 0.0 0.1 1900 676 ? SN 20:38 0:00 /usr/bin/distccd --pid-file /var/run/distccd/distccd.pid -N 15 --user distcc distcc 6794 0.0 0.1 1900 676 ? SN 20:38 0:00 /usr/bin/distccd --pid-file /var/run/distccd/distccd.pid -N 15 --user distcc root 7560 0.0 0.2 2152 1360 ? S 21:06 0:00 login -- carl carl 7821 0.0 0.2 2408 1268 tty2 S 21:09 0:00 -bash carl 7829 0.0 0.1 2216 948 tty2 S 21:09 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx carl 7842 0.0 0.1 2140 604 tty2 S 21:09 0:00 xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- -nolisten tcp -br -deferglyphs 16 root 7843 1.7 5.5 161676 28388 ? SL 21:09 0:09 X :0 -nolisten tcp -br -deferglyphs 16 carl 7855 0.0 0.1 1956 876 tty2 S 21:09 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.2.3 carl 7882 0.0 0.1 2220 968 tty2 S 21:09 0:00 /bin/sh --login /usr/kde/3.2/bin/startkde carl 7901 0.0 1.8 21360 9436 ? S 21:09 0:00 kdeinit: Running... carl 7904 0.0 1.8 21004 9436 ? S 21:09 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid carl 7906 0.0 2.0 22520 10688 ? S 21:09 0:00 kdeinit: klauncher carl 7909 0.0 2.7 25016 14080 ? S 21:09 0:00 kdeinit: kded carl 7920 0.0 1.1 9764 5992 ? S 21:09 0:00 //usr/kde/3.2/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f carl 7926 0.0 3.0 29520 15844 ? S 21:09 0:00 kdeinit: knotify carl 7929 0.0 0.0 1332 324 tty2 S 21:09 0:00 kwrapper ksmserver carl 7931 0.0 2.3 22668 12224 ? S 21:09 0:00 kdeinit: ksmserver carl 7932 0.1 2.8 24496 14612 ? S 21:09 0:00 kdeinit: kwin -session 11c0a87b02000109383028400000065330000_1093918135_575604 carl 7935 0.0 2.7 24044 14008 ? S 21:09 0:00 kdeinit: kwrited carl 7936 0.0 2.4 23112 12564 ? S 21:09 0:00 kdeinit: khotkeys carl 7938 0.2 3.0 25232 15784 ? S 21:09 0:01 kdeinit: kdesktop carl 7941 0.1 3.1 26580 16320 ? S 21:09 0:00 kdeinit: kicker carl 7943 0.0 2.7 24052 14028 ? S 21:09 0:00 kdeinit: klipper carl 7946 0.0 2.9 26076 15140 ? S 21:09 0:00 korgac --miniicon korganizer carl 7950 0.0 1.9 22500 10028 ? S 21:09 0:00 kdeinit: kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-carl/klauncheronKGJb.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-carl/konquerorR6g4ga.slave-socket carl 8021 0.0 0.1 2220 1020 ? S 21:10 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/firefox carl 8031 0.7 5.0 39572 26104 ? S 21:10 0:03 /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin carl 8035 0.0 5.0 39572 26104 ? S 21:10 0:00 /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin carl 8036 0.0 5.0 39572 26104 ? S 21:10 0:00 /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin carl 8038 0.0 5.0 39572 26104 ? S 21:10 0:00 /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin root 8059 0.0 0.1 1380 568 tty1 S 21:10 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux root 8095 0.0 0.1 2152 1004 ? S 21:14 0:00 login -- root carl 8131 0.3 3.7 27544 19396 ? S 21:14 0:00 kdeinit: konqueror --silent carl 8166 0.0 2.4 23412 12628 ? SN 21:14 0:00 kdeinit: kio_thumbnail thumbnail /tmp/ksocket-carl/klauncheronKGJb.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-carl/konqueror5pGCra.slave-socket carl 8167 0.4 3.5 28152 18268 ? S 21:14 0:00 kdeinit: kwrite /home/carl/dev_pt.txt carl 8169 0.1 2.8 24860 14688 ? S 21:14 0:00 kdeinit: kio_uiserver carl 8170 0.0 1.9 22320 10012 ? S 21:14 0:00 kdeinit: kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-carl/klauncheronKGJb.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-carl/kwriteCidCWa.slave-socket carl 8172 0.0 1.9 22320 10012 ? S 21:14 0:00 kdeinit: kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-carl/klauncheronKGJb.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-carl/kwriteErPlva.slave-socket carl 8173 0.7 3.0 26292 15772 ? S 21:17 0:00 kdeinit: konsole --ls root 8174 0.0 0.2 2148 1244 tty5 S 21:17 0:00 -bash root 8182 0.0 0.1 2320 792 tty5 R 21:18 0:00 ps aux That is a lot of output. I sure hope that is what you were looking for since the orginator hasn't followup yet. Thanks Carl
Sorry but I can't see a clear solution. Just check if you have write permission on /dev/ptmx (You should have these lines in the udev permissions file) # pty devices # Set this to 0660 if you only want users belonging to tty group # to be able to allocate PTYs ptmx:root:tty:0666 and try running konsole from inside an xterm to see if there's some useful output.
I followed the steps as outlined by the site below for udev and everything reported here is fine. To me this does not appear to be a bug but rather a setup issue so follow the udev primer :) (That primer should be the gentoo docs howto instead of a link to it. http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html
No reply from original reporter, please open a new bug with full information ('emerge info', etc) if it's still a problem.
