In article <20050417144615.GA4677@atheria.tumfatig.net>,
Joel CARNAT  <joel@carnat.net> wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>it's been a few days I'm running netbsd-3 kernel over a 2_STABLE
>userland with no trouble. Now I've just succeeded in compiling the whole
>netbsd-3 userland and did the "./build.sh ... install=/". X didn't
>compile with the build process, so I compiled the whole userland (minus
>X) with build.sh and X from /usr/xsrc (make build && make install).
>
>when I use my non-root account, no Xterm start any more :(
>firefox, windowmaker are OK though.
>Xterm starts fine when I startx as root.
>same issue if I log to X from xdm.

You are probably missing /dev/ptm and /dev/ptmx

christos