console window question

Robert Brockway rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org
Fri Feb 11 17:53:59 UTC 2005


On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Tim Writer wrote:

> No, the error's from login so it's something to do with how konsole starts
> login compared with how xterm starts it.

It could still be related to the location of utmp given that /bin/login 
accesses it also.  Ie, login and xterm may be in agreement about where 
utmp is while konsole disagrees.

It's just a thought anyway, I've also seen this error from screwed 
libraries and (iirc, many years ago) from a screwed shadow setup.

Did you try stracing konsole and xterm?

Cheers,

Rob

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