when i try to run cxterm i get the error: no available ptys the homepage says to chmod 666 /dev/pty/* to fix this on mandrake, but this doesn't help on gentoo Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6. 7-gentoo-r11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/ dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/c onfig/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp ://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo .org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow aalib alsa avi berkdb bzlib cdr cjk crypt curl dga dgs divx4linux doc gif gtk2 jpeg mad matroska mmx mng mpeg msn ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pc re perl png posix postgres python quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl tcpd ti ff truetype unicode vhosts x86 xv xvid zlib"
I'm taking this upstream to see if they know why the fix reported on their site doesn't work.
attempted to contact 3 people upstream, all bad email addresses. Someone with access to sf.net might be able to login and submit a bug, but I think cxterm removed legacy pty support, and that is what caused it to break (somehow it doesn't work with new ptys). The weird thing is, my kernel has legacy BSD pty support on.. maybe it's broken in 2.6.7..
The package seems dead upstream. Reassigning to CJK, as I couldn't even test it if I were able to fix the application, which is broken by design anyway.
Yeah, it looks the upstream is dead... and chmod 666 /dev/pty/* works on my laptop. (I'm using 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 kernel with Unix98 PTY and Legacy BSD PTY support)
The workaround for chmod 666 /dev/pty* doesn't work on my new Gentoo boxen (though it worked on my laptop). I re-fetched source tarball from sf.net upstream and recompiled it, and then it worked as expected. Someone forked from original source to incorporate Unix98 PTY change but they didn't change source tarball's name. If you still have trouble with this, please run emerge --sync and try again.
