[NBLUG/talk] What controls the "prompt"?

[ME]

Todd Cary said:
> Here are the result of the ls -la /dev/pts/ :
>
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jun 19 18:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x   21 root     root       118784 Aug  4 11:53 ..
>
> And here are the results of ls -la /dev/ | grep pts
>
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jun 19 18:31 pts
>
> The trace is another story!  Since there appears to be a lot of
> "looping" in both coupled with my lack of understanding of what Linux is
> doing at this level of granulitity, I am not sure where the one run as
> "todd" hangs and the one run as "root" succeeds.

yep. Both will loop until they die. If after they startup, you quit both,
they will stop looping and the files will be completed. Send those files
to my address not the talk list. I do not expect any moderators to okay
your message with attachments that are too big.

For the gnome-terminal running under your username, dont kill it right
away. Try typing a few words into that window and let it run for a bit
before closing the box.

You will want to keep these files.

-ME


> ME wrote:
>
>>Good! Progress. I need some more information and would like to request
>> you
>>do some things:
>>
>>Are you running devfs or is dev a mounted physical filesystem? (I expect
>>you have a /dev/ mounted filesystem that is not devfs)
>>
>>If you are running wit /dev/ that is not /devfs, then again, please check
>>to see if you have a directory in /dev called "pts"
>>
>>(Do these as root)
>>
>>ls -la /dev/ | grep pts
>>and
>>ls -la /dev/pts/
>>
>>Also, please send me (not the list) the results of these:
>>
>>strace gnome-terminal 2> /tmp/gnome-output1.txt
>>(as your own username in gnome)
>>
>>and again:
>>
>>strace gnome-terminal 2> /tmp/gnome-output-root.txt
>>(as root)
>>
>>Different files for each. These should provide some details on what files
>>are being opened and where it might be getting stuck.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>-ME
>>
>>Todd Cary said:
>>
>>
>>>Here are the results of
>>>
>>>$ ls -la /dev/ptys* /dev/tty* > /tmp/my-tty.txt
>>>
>>>
>>
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