Gui problem for users, not root?

[genesus]

Hey guys,

Well, I have emerged enlightenment and am trying to set up everything now; however, I have run into a snag. I emerged Multi-Aterm because I really like it as a terminal, and xterm was already setup for enlightenment, so there should be no hitch. As root user, they open well as they should; however, when I try to open them under a user account nothing happens. When I ctr-alt-f1 to check error messages I see this for aterm

materm: can't open pseudo-tty
materm: aborting

and for xterm I get this error

xterm: error 32, errno 2: no such file or directory
Reason: get-pty: not enough ptys

does anyone know what this could mean, I figure it must be some sort of permission error because everything works well on root

thanks for your time,

john

[genesus]

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[shalamabobbi]

Well i'm no gentoo user...
Here are some links that you may make sense of..
This and this too.
Doing a search on pty on that last forum pulled up a ton of threads..

If nothing else I've bumped you again..

[genesus]

thanks shalambobbi, I am looking through those and other links, if you see anything else please let me know, thanks.

[genesus]

chmod -R 777 /dev

fixed the problem but I don't feel safe for some reason, is there a problem with doing this?