Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

On Mon 29 Nov 1999, Richard Braakman wrote:
> 
> > > > Package: screen (main)
> > > > Maintainer: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
> > > >   50394  screen: It exits upon invocation with [screen is terminating] message.
> > > >   51058  screen: Immediately quits
> > > 
> > > Can some confirm that there's still this bug?
> > 
> > Seems to be caused by custom kernels with missing features. Should be
> > downgraded.
> 
> I don't think so; the "missing features" are Unix98 ptys, which
> require userland configuration as well as a new kernel.  I expect

What userland configuration? On my systems that were simply upgraded
from slink to potato (nothing special done besides that and a new 2.2
kernel), screen works just fine.

Do you mean /etc/init.d/devpts.sh ? That's part of libc6.

> that every system upgrading from slink will be affected by this.


Paul Slootman
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