Package: rungetty Version: 1.2-13 Severity: important I tried to use rungetty to present a nice text menu on a live-helper built Debian CD (Lenny), but rungetty refused to run. So I tried again on a regular system and the same problem occured. I tried to run:
rungetty -u root -g root --autologin root tty8 -- /bin/true (and tried again with:) rungetty -u root -g root -- /bin/true In both cases, the syslog output is: rungetty[28322]: /dev/tty8: cannot open tty: Operation not permitted When I run it via strace, I get: [..] chown32("/dev/tty8", 0, 0) = 0 chmod("/dev/tty8", 0600) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {SIG_IGN}, NULL, 8) = 0 open("/dev/tty8", O_RDWR) = 3 ioctl(3, TIOCSCTTY) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) [..] On some of my other systems it runs nice, but I don't know what's the difference. I may contribute some strace output of a working rungetty if you want (as soon as I get home). Debian Release: 5.0.8 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages rungetty depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18lenny7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries rungetty recommends no packages. rungetty suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org