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I installed vncserver to be able to run graphical applications on my LS1 and view them on another computer using vnc.
Everything worked well when logged in as root, but when logged in as a less privileged user, I could not start xterm.
It took quite a while until I found the answer (googled a lot), so I thought I post here if someone else gets into the same problem:

The problem is that a file in the /dev directory (/dev/ptmx) has the wrong permissions.

Permission was 777. It should be 600! So all you have to do is:

chmod 600 /dev/ptmx
while logged in as root.

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Hans-Göran

Thanks

same problem for me on linkstation live 500gb running freelink, but chmod doesnt seem to do the trick, any other idea?

found something:

chmod 666 /dev/ptmx
chown root.tty /dev/ptmx

but now i get:

open ttydev: Permission Denied

Here's what it looks like on my box:

crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 2 2009-04-10 19:01 /dev/ptmx

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hmm xterm still not working, but ive installed aterm and that one works now (also didnt work before i did chmod 666 /dev/ptmx
chown root.tty /dev/ptmx)

still thx though

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