Re: devfsd and pty's
Hi Sean!
You wrote:
> This morning I upgraded devfsd to 1.3.19-1 (curent version in sid)
> and now I cannot open any xterms. Error message is
> Eterm: Error: grantpt(4) failed: Permission denied
> Eterm: Error: Can't open pseudo-tty -- No such file or directory
> Eterm: Error: aborting
> Everything in /dev/ looks like it should work so I'm unsure why this
> would be happening. Thanks in advance.
This is a bug in devfsd (#121785). You should upgrade to 1.3.19-2 (in
incoming), add a line "REGISTER ^pts$ PERMISSION root.root 0755" in
/etc/devfs/perms and restart devfsd.
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Kind regards,
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