Error passing command to konsole for execution

Same here, using fully up-to-date Edgy, tested with many parameters to -e (scripts and bash built-ins).

However, using --noclose and -e kget, for instance, causes konsole to appear and disappear quickly (in spite of --noclose). Nothing gets printed to stdout.

Kernel: 2.6.17-11-386
Qt: 3.3.6
KDE: 3.5.5
Konsole: 1.6.5

Thanks for your report, fully reproducible in Gutsy development version completely updated. In KDE bugs tracker this issue is already known and the developers consider this strictly related to bug 120322. So, it's possible that this bug is fixed in upstream.

I can verify that I get the same "pty errors" for Debian Etch (Konsole 1.6.5 on KDE 3.5.5) using the example...

konsole --noclose -e "echo hello"

However, the problem is that the command must not be inside quotes (which is why -e must be the last option).
So this works as expected...

konsole --noclose -e echo hello

This is NOT nice because xterm does allow the command to be enclosed in quotes, and is therefore more powerful.
For example, both of these work...

xterm -e less fred
xterm -e "less fred"

This means that you can do things like this to look at the gzipped file fred.gz in a new window...

xterm -e "gunzip -c fred.gz | less"

But without the quotes the -e refers only to the gunzip and the output from the xterm statement is piped into less (not what you want!).
In otherwords, neither of these work as desired (no errors though)...

xterm -e gunzip -c fred.gz | less
konsole -e gunzip -c fred.gz | less

Fixed in Intrepid.