** Description changed: Binary package hint: mc Release: Jaunty Jackalope Version of MC: Current as of apr 26, 2009 Expected: - MC able to save and restore the shell screen + MC able to save and restore the subshell screen Actual: MC blanks out - Detail: + To reproduce: - When on a virtual console, + Log into vt 1 (/dev/tty1) + Start mc, then use C-o to switch to the subshell. Observe that the screen is blanked. + Exit mc + sudo chown you:you /dev/vcsa1 # this is the workaround + Start mc again + Use C-o to switch to the subshell and notice that the subshell screen is now properly saved and restored - Using control-O to flip between MC and the subshell causes the screen to - be erased. + User's diagnosis: - Diagnosis: + For some reason /dev/vcsa* permissions aren't being properly set up when + a user logs in on a virtual console. - The problem is that for some reason a vc login isn't granting the appropriate permissions on /dev/vcs* - Which in turn means that mc is unable to read /dev/vcsa* - - Kludgy workaround: - - I wrote a suid-root C program to grant world rwx to /dev/vcs* every time - I log in on VC. - - Changing the files so that the user has read/write permission to - /dev/vcsa* solves the problem. I suspect that mc is a victim of a bug - elsewhere that fails to grant a console user the appropriate permissions - /dev/vcs* upon a login. + I move that this be considered a bug for which mc is a victim. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: mc 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: mc Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
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