konsole problems

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday 09 October 2006 19:01, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Reinstalled debian i386 etch, kernel 2.6.15 I experince problems with kde
> konsole:
>
> Trying to run user commands in konsole, I got message
>
>  'Konsole is unable to open a PTY (pseudo teletype). It is likely that this
> is due to an incorrect configuration of PTY device. Konsole needs to have
> read/write access to the PTY device'
>
> Problems with /dev/pts ownership? If so, where to change property?
> -------------------------------
>
>  Then, trying to get the root shell, it did not accept the Administrator
> password with warning:
>
>  'The program 'su' is not found; make sure your PATH is set correctly'.
>
> Normally PATH is to be told to kdm, though I do not use kdm. At any
> event, ./bashrc is in order.

Can you check with

$ which su

if su is being found before calling startkde?
(assuming you run startkde manually)

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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