Comment 2 for bug 367608

I now have updated my fourth computer to Jaunty. And I had trouble with Konsole, again. The update was uneventful, and the problem occurred as described in comment 1.

However, the pty* devices did not exist this time. Trying to run konsole from a virtual terminal resulted in warnings about flow control, and could not connect to dbus. Again, I am sorry but the exact message was lost since I cannot cut and paste from my virtual terminal, and it has scrolled off the display after I performed the fix.

I found a strong hint for at least an interim fix here:

http://www.splatdot.com/2009/04/24/ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope-upgrade-notes

See the notes about adding /dev/pts into the fstab. Specifically, adding this line to /etc/fstab:

devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0

and then running in a virtual terminal:

$ sudo mount -a

solved the problem. Apparently one needs to reorder the init scripts to make sure it (and my RAID -- another story) work on reboot. I noticed that /dev/pty* devices still do not exist, but that is not a worry to me. Seems like a much more appropriate and less risky fix than adding a user to a group.

Hope this helps.