konsole problems

[Francesco Pietra]

On Monday 09 October 2006 17:39, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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)

command
which su
does not detect su, even if issued sitting on /bin.

File 
/bin/su
has normal properties:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 25024 May ... su

cheers
francesco
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
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