[Sunhelp] strange things happening, grantpt failed

[Haiko Steuer]

Hello,

I have some strange problems with my sparc (SUN OS 5.5.1).

First NIS was not working because rpc did not start. The reason was a
missing executable permission for /usr/sbin/rpcbind. So I wondered
about and changed that. Now I can log in as user again, but ...

top is not working 
top: cannot open /dev/kmem: Permission denied
kvm_open: Permission denied 

openwin comes up with the message 
fbconsole: grantpt failed

  I am not able to get any terminal, receiving instead messages like
  xterm: Error 1, errno 13: Permission denied
   or
  grantpt: No such file or directory
  XView error: NULL pointer passed to xv_set 

  other programs (xload, file manager, ...) are displayed very well

What is happening here ? 
Any ideas ?


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  Haiko Steuer         Fon: 030 / 314-24253
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