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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