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baicai

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Registered: 2011-07-03

Posts: 2

can't open Terminal

hello,everyone. i have a trouble today
when i dobule click Terminal icon on the desktop but it said that "Failed to execute child. grantpt failed: Exec format error." ,i don't konw how to solove thie problem,who can help me ,thank you .

stqn

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Registered: 2010-10-11

Posts: 174

Re: can't open Terminal

Searching the web for your error returns this post.

You could check the ownership and permissions of /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts/.

# ls -l /dev/ptmx 
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 Jul  3 15:22 /dev/ptmx
# ls -dl /dev/pts
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul  3 04:40 /dev/pts

Oh, I see you've posted on the Arch Linux forum too... No point in answering here then.

baicai

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Registered: 2011-07-03

Posts: 2

Re: can't open Terminal

crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 Jul  4 06:38 /dev/ptmx
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul  4 06:38 /dev/pts/