Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 14:03:16 -0500 From: Oliver Wilson <owilson@cam.org> To: Peter Korsten <peterk@IAEhv.nl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm won't work Message-ID: <32C6C074.41C67EA6@cam.org> References: <32C5640B.7C61@IAEhv.nl>
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Peter Korsten wrote: > > I'm not really sure where to post this, so this seems to be the > address. > > I'm having trouble starting an xterm on my machine. When I do try > to start one, I get "inappropiate ioctl for device. After reading > through a ktrace dump, I see that there's an open() on /dev/tty > and four consecutive ioctl()'s are performed on that. All fail, > because /dev/tty doesn't seem to be a tty (according to the error > message). I'm running 2.1.5. > > Is this an easy to solve problem? Thanx! > > - Peter -- This may be asking the question, but...are you running X ? You'll need X in order to run xterm. Oliver Wilson owilson@sirn.org
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