Cygwin, KDE 3.4 and Konsole

[Ralf Habacker]

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Stan Guillory schrieb:
> I just installed the latest Cygwin distribution and KDE 3.4. When I run
> Konsole, I get the following error:
>  
> "Konsole is unable to open a PTY (pseudo teletype). It is likely that
> this is due to an incorrect configuration
> of PTY devices. Konsole needs to have read/write access to the PTY
> devices"
>  
>  
> In the bash shell that launched KDE, I get the following message:
>  
> "/opt/kde3.4/bin/kgrantpty not installed setuid root
> kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: chownpty failed for device :/dev/tty1
> This means the communication can be eavesdropped.
> /opt/kde3.4/bin/kgrantpty not installed setuid root
> konsole: WARNING: konsole not able to open a psuedo teletype!
> Uh oh.. can't get terminal attributes.."
>  
> Would appreciate any assistance. I don't remember doing anything special
> to get konsole working with
> kde 3.0.
>  

Which cygwin package versions are you using ?

cygwin 1.9.15-4 is known to have problems in some areas. You may try a
snapshot from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots

Regards
 Ralf
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