[Konsole-devel] [Bug 152673] konsole can't open pty

Thu Dec 13 16:34:12 UTC 2007

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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152673         

------- Additional Comments From u.luckas road de  2007-12-13 17:34 -------
an strace looks like this:
[pid  8338] open("/dev/ptyp0", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
..
[pid  8338] open("/dev/ptyoz", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  8338] write(2, "konsole(8338)/kdecore (KProcess/"..., 85konsole(8338)/kdecore (KProcess/K3Process) KPty::open: Can't open a pseudo teletype 
) = 85

It looks like konsole tries to find on legacy (BSD) pty. Now looking in Debian's current kernel configuration the option LEGACY_PTYS is not set.

You have to configure konsole to use Unix98 ptys.