astrobabe Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 Hi there, Not a linux newbie, but afraid enough that I'll screw something up. Originally I had Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop. I finally decided to upgrade to 10.0 official onece I got a wireless card and found out the support was better in 10.0. Upgraded and everything seemed great. . .until I logged in as a user on my machine. I use xgterms. Haven't heard of them? Well there is a reason- only us astronomers use them. Even worse is that we need xgterms to run our software (IRAF). When I try to run an xgterm as a user I get the "xgterm: no available ptys" error. As root I tried makedev ptys but that didn't seem to work as I still get the same error. Now as root logged into the graphical interface (yes yes I know don't do that) I can get an xgterm to run. Any ideas what I can do next? I'm tried finding the kernel out there to do a rebuild and can't find the one with the appropriate mandrake tweaks. Other question- I use grub. Now when I boot there are like 8 boot options including variants of "old-linus". How the heck do I get rid of some of those options? I know I should keep the regular boot option and failsafe and floppy but there are a few superfluous options there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somedude Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 (edited) Although I've no clue what xgterms are, if you can launch it when logged on as root but not as a regular user, you may not have rights to it. Or, when you're logged on as root, a configuration file may be different than the user's, since it may be in /root instead of /home/user. Sorry if I'm way off here. Try this for Grub. Edited June 10, 2004 by somedude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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