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Date:      Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:56:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Peter Korsten <peterk@IAEhv.nl>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xterm won't work
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961229155631.311T-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <32C5640B.7C61@IAEhv.nl>

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On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, 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.

Put 

options "COMPAT_43"

back in your kernel config, recompile, reinstall.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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