On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> wrote:
> On 2015-12-02 13:45, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > Package: libc-bin > > Version: 2.21-1 > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm unable to open some terminal applications like rxvt and konsole, > > don't know why but xterm still works. > > > > Running rxvt gives this output: > > > > $ rxvt > > rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty > > rxvt: aborting > > $ strace rxvt > > statfs("/dev/pts", {f_type="DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC", f_bsize=4096, > f_blocks=0, > > f_bfree=0, f_bavail=0, f_files=0, f_ffree=0, f_fsid={0, 0}, > f_namelen=255, > > f_frsize=4096}) = 0 > > ioctl(4, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 > > ioctl(4, TIOCGPTN, [2]) = 0 > > stat("/dev/pts/2", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 2), ...}) > = 0 > > getuid() = 1000 > > open("/etc/group", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 5 > > lseek(5, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0 > > fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=624, ...}) = 0 > > mmap(NULL, 624, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 5, 0) = 0x7f02d0366000 > > lseek(5, 624, SEEK_SET) = 624 > > munmap(0x7f02d0366000, 624) = 0 > > close(5) = 0 > > chown("/dev/pts/2", 1000, 5) = -1 EPERM (Operation not > permitted) > > close(4) = 0 > > open("/dev/pty??", O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > > directory) > > write(2, "rxvt: ", 6rxvt: ) = 6 > > write(2, "can't open pseudo-tty", 21can't open pseudo-tty) = 21 > > write(2, "\n", 1 > > ) > > $ ls -l /dev/pts/* > > crw------- 1 cavok cavok 136, 0 Dec 2 2015 /dev/pts/0 > > crw------- 1 cavok cavok 136, 1 Dec 2 12:38 /dev/pts/1 > > > > Investigating konsole, the issue looks the same: unable to set pts > > permission. > > > > Downgrading libc6 and libc6-i686 to 2.19-22 doesn't help, but downgrading > > libc-bin actually does the trick. > > > > Could you please help here? > > This is due to the changes introduced to fix the bug #717544. Your > system is supposed to have /dev/pts mounted with some options: > > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts > (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) > > This should be the default and can be modified in /etc/default/devpts. > It looks like in your case /dev/pts is not mounted or mounted with the > wrong options. Can you send the output of the following command: > > mount | grep devpts > $ mount | grep devpts devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,mode=600) none on /mnt/sid64/dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600) none on /mnt/sid64/home/chernobyl/dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600) $ grep devpts /etc/fstab none /mnt/sid64/dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 none /mnt/sid64/home/chernobyl/dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 commenting out TTYGRP in /etc/default/devpts doesn't help. thanks, Domenico