Why does "xterm" die aborning?

[Bill Fink]

Hi Rick,

Glad to help out, just as I've been helped many times in these online
forums.  I found the fix by doing a google search on xterm and the
key portion of the error message, but that was some time ago so I can't
remember anymore who to give credit for originally figuring it out.
I don't know why it fixes it, only that it did the trick for me.  I
don't even use xterm anymore as I've switched to KDE and konsole, and
I like konsole better than xterm because it lets you have multiple
sessions in the same window.

						-Bill



On Mon, 08 Jul 2002, Rick Thomas wrote:

> Bill,
> 
> Thanks for the tip!  I tried it and it works...  But I still have a
> question:  How does "fatal pty error" relate to VT100 eight bit input?  How
> in the world could I have been expected to get from the symptoms to the
> cure?  How did *you* get from here to there?!!!
> 
> I'll accept that there's a lot of "magic" in X-windows, but this seems
> genuinely bizarre.  Please enlighten me.
> 
> Thanks again for the fix, however you got it!
> 
> Rick
> 
> > From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
> > Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 03:08:27 -0400
> > To: YellowDog Linux General <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> > Cc: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
> > Subject: Re: Why does "xterm" die aborning?
> > 
> > On Sun Jul 7 2002, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > 
> >> I have YDL 2.2 loaded on a Mac TiBook.  When I try to start an xterm, I get
> >> 
> >> xterm: fatal pty error 23 (errno=22) on tty /dev/pts/3
> >> 
> >> Anybody know why, or how to fix it?
> > 
> > Hi Rick,
> > 
> > In the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm change the line:
> > 
> > *VT100*eightBitInput: false
> > 
> > to:
> > 
> > *VT100*eightBitInput: true
> > 
> > That should do it.
> > 
> > -Bill
> > 
> > P.S.  I just noticed that the lists search function is once again working
> > on the YellowDog Linux web site.
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