Bug#348367: xterm: xterm fails to start
Package: xterm
Version: 208-2
Severity: grave
% xterm
xterm: Error 14, errno 2: No such file or directory
Reason: spawn: open() failed on /dev/tty
Udev does not create /dev/tty any more, which seems to be a new
policy.
Goodbyte, Gerd.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw8 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs-data 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System client data
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii xutils 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System utility programs
-- debconf information:
* xterm/clobber_xresource_file: true
xterm/xterm_needs_devpts:
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