KDE Konsole, crashes, on a SIGABRT...

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Saturday 23 August 2003 23:57, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > How can I help figure this out?
>
> We (threads guys) think it's a problem with konsole.  It is trying
> to change ownership of the pty and is failing to do so.  We don't
> know why.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  konsole
> aborts itself when it can't change/open the pty, so SIGABRT is
> expected.

I dunno..
On 4.x I get this in my .xsession-errors file ->
konsole: cannot chown /dev/ttyp2.
Reason: Operation not permitted
konsole: chownpty failed for device /dev/ptyp2::/dev/ttyp2.
       : This means the session can be eavesdroped.
       : Make sure konsole_grantpty is installed in
       : /usr/local/bin/ and setuid root.

It is as expected I think ->

[chowder 13:53] ~ >ll /dev/ttyp2
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    5,   2 Aug 25 13:53 /dev/ttyp2
[chowder 13:53] ~ >ll /usr/local/bin/konsole_grantpty
-rwsr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  5584 Aug 13 04:06 /usr/local/bin/konsole_grantpty

I found that a 5.1-REL machine I upgraded to -CURRENT last Thursday had this 
problem, I haven't resolved it yet, but possibly rebuilding kdebase will fix 
it.

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