empty blue screen. What's wrong?
A. You have some wrong permissions. I'm guessing you can probably log in as root
- but not as your normal user. Basically you need to edit the
- /etc/udev/udev.permissions file to set the correct permissions to the nodes
- in /dev. I added the following:
-
- null:root:users:0666
- urandom:root:users:0644
-
- setting the correct permissions to null and urandom allowed me to login
- as myself and not at root.
+ but not as your normal user. Basically you need to set the right
+ permissions with a rule. Setting the correct permissions to null and urandom
+ allowed me to login as myself and not at root.
While you are there you might want to set the permissions to ptmx as well
- or you may have trouble getting a bash prompt in an xterm. i.e.
- ptmx:root:users:0666 Also refer to the next question.
+ or you may have trouble getting a bash prompt in an xterm. Also refer to the
+ next question.
Q. I'm having trouble getting a bash prompt from my xterm. i.e. I bring up a
terminal and all I have is a blank screen with a blinking cursor.