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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!hades.rz.uni-sb.de!news.phil.uni-sb.de!not-for-mail From: D. Rock <rock@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xterm doesn't work on 2.1.7 but everything else does?? Date: 7 Mar 1997 00:21:18 GMT Organization: The Linux Haters Club Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5fnn1u$8kf@pf1.phil.uni-sb.de> References: <331B5498.794B@ece.cmu.edu> <5fhti6$8o0$1@bofh.noc.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: vodix.cs.uni-sb.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970222; i86pc SunOS 5.5.1] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36679 In Artikel <5fhti6$8o0$1@bofh.noc.best.net> schrieb Ron Echeverri <rone@bofh.noc.best.net>: : In article <331B5498.794B@ece.cmu.edu>, : Chris Inacio <inacio@ece.cmu.edu> wrote: : >The title pretty much says it all. I grabbed 2.1.7 from cdrom.com the : >other day and Xfree86 stable 2.1 to go with it. I installed everything. : >I can run X windows and twm and fvwm no problem. I get xeyes, xconsole, : >some other X apps running just fine, but xterms DO NOT come up. The : >only warning/error message I have to speak of is that my shared : >libraries may be old. Does any one know if the shared libraries are the : >cause? Does anyone know how to make this work? : Have you tried running an xterm as root? Maybe you didn't install it : setuid. Also, do you have 'options "COMPAT_43"' in your kernel : configuration file? Is your home-directory world-eXecutable? If it isn't, xterm complains about not finding a usable termcap entry. This is because xterm is run setuid root and can't read in your directory. This is definitaly a bug, but I don't know if it is in xterm or in some library... Daniel