Bug#229566: xterm fails to start with EINVAL

[Stefan Foerster <stefan@stefan-foerster.de>]

* Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
>> helena:~$ xterm
>> xterm: fatal pty error 23 (errno=22) on tty /dev/pts/3
> 
> Hmm.  Is the devpts pseudo-filesystem mounted?

Yes, it is:

| helena:~$ mount | grep devpts
| devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)

A common workaround seems to be a

| XTerm*eightBitInput:   true
| *VT100*eightBitInput: true

somwehre in ~/.Xresources. Unfortunately, this breaks an application I
have to work with for my company.


Ciao,
Stefan
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