On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:40:09AM +0100, Roman Bertle wrote:
> Package: xterm
> Version: 208-3.1
> Severity: minor
>
> Hello,
>
> since my last system upgrade, if I open a xterm a warning message is written:
That more than likely indicates a problem with your configuration than
xterm (of course it could be the package).
> mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'
On my system for instance, xterm is setgid to utmp. Perhaps these (xterm)
changelog entries are related to your problem:
Patch #206 - 2005/11/3 - XFree86 4.5.99.15
* modify Imakefile to use setgid mode for installing with Linux,
OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
* add configure --with-setuid and --with-reference options to allow
packagers more flexibility in customizing install permissions.
* generalize and make optional (configure --with-utmp-setgid) the
change made for XFree86 Bugzilla #878 in [219]patch #205 (FreeBSD
bug report #ports/86663).
> Regards, Roman
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
> Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>
> 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.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
> ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
> ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
> ii libxaw8 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
> ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
> ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
> ii libxmu6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
> ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
> ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
> ii xlibs-data 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 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.1-4 X Window System utility programs
>
> -- debconf information:
> xterm/clobber_xresource_file: true
> xterm/xterm_needs_devpts:
>
>
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