Bug#245967: marked as done (debian-installer: dev/pts/* not created)
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From: "David N. Welton" <davidw@debian.org>
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Subject: debian-installer: dev/pts/* not created
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No idea if the installer is responsible for this. If it's not, let me
know and I'll take it up with the appropriate package.
Anyway... freshly installed sarge system and I get this:
davidw@coosbay:~$ ls /dev/pts/*
/dev/pts/0 /dev/pts/1 /dev/pts/2 /dev/pts/3
which is in fact causing errors:
davidw@coosbay:~/workshop$ xterm
xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
So, thanks for any insight you can provide,
Dave
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From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#245967: debian-installer: dev/pts/* not created
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 04:45:53PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> > I'd advise looking at the end of an strace to see what tty-related
> > devices xterm is actually trying to open.
>
> Sure:
>
> it cycles through these:
>
> open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> alarm(0) = 2
> rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_DFL}, {0x8071900, [ALRM], SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0
> open("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> open("/dev/ptyp0", O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> open("/dev/ptyp1", O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> open("/dev/ptyp2", O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
>
> ...
>
> and then poof:
>
> write(2, "xterm: Error 32, errno 2: ", 26) = 26
> write(2, "No such file or directory\n", 26) = 26
> write(2, "Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys\n", 33) = 33
>
> So maybe it's a makedev bug? Not sure, but *something* didn't do its
> job right.
Yeah, that's definitely a makedev bug, namely #245718. It's closed with
makedev 2.3.1-68:
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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:14:25 -0600
Source: makedev
Binary: makedev
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.3.1-68
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Changed-By: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Description:
makedev - Creates device files in /dev
Closes: 244735 245718 245737 245739 245761 245777
Changes:
makedev (2.3.1-68) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* oops, we need to leave 'tty' as 0666 as we tighten the permissions on
other tty* devices, closes: #245761, #245737, #244735, #245718
* mountpoint -q doesn't work in all cases to detect udev, try a different
approach, closes: #245777, #245739
* have the postinst do '/bin/chmod o= /dev/tty[0-9]*' to further address
the console DOS potential raised in bug #244751
Files:
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ddaf18a7c322e7a8740efba6dfb11708 45312 base required makedev_2.3.1-68.diff.gz
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Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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