Re: gnome-terminal acts funny in recent 2.5 series

From: Gustavo Noronha Silva (kov@debian.org)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 19:39:17 EST


On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 01:03:13 +0100
Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com> wrote:

> Running Ximian-latest for rh72/i386, latest 2.5 kernels (including
> 2.5.4-pre2, 2.5.4, 2.5.5-pre1).
>
> Symptom:
> - clicking on the panel icon for gnome-terminal shows a flicker
> of the terminal window coming up then the window disappears.
> No leftover processes.
>
> What works 100%:
> - regular xterm in 2.5.x
> - gnome-terminal in 2.4.x (x in .17, .18-pre9, .18-rc2)
I noticed this problem also... it seems the problem lies on
devpts, I enabled it on my 2.5.5pre1 build, mounting
devpts with the options given on the "readme" file
made gnome-terminal start on the second try, almost
everytime

[]s!

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    Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov>
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