Paul Bredbury wrote:

> ken wrote:
>> HOWEVER I still can't start an xterm (konsole) session and get
>> a bash prompt as a user. Works fine as root. UGG!
>
> Maybe a problem with /dev/pty. You should have the following in
> /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
>
> # pty devices
> KERNEL="ptmx", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty", MODE="0666"
> KERNEL="pty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/m%n", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="tty"
> KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="tty"
>
> Given your previous problem with udev, try "emerge udev" and see if it
> fixes this file for you after an "etc-update" and reboot.
Actually there were some config issues with udev that etc-update fixed.
Probably with the above file, which included the fix for the /dev/null
problem.