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Bug#452800: marked as done (Old Bug renewed: rights of the tty are wrong)

Your message dated Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:29:47 +0100
with message-id <20071201192947.GA20535@ikki>
and subject line Old Bug renewed: rights of the tty are wrong NOT a bug
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Package: xterm
Version: 222-1etch2
Severity: normal

I have no clue why this happens again since xterm isn't updated for long
time.

When I start xterm I get:
mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'

~> ls -l `tty`
crw--w---- 1 klaus utmp 136, 10 2007-11-25 11:11 /dev/pts/10

If I chgrp of /usr/bin/xterm to tty it works well.

Is there any reason the xterm binary is group utmp? And then why is this
long fixed bug opened again?

~> md5sum /usr/bin/xterm
3ebc5ce7ac8c87d64a17cf086987ce25  /usr/bin/xterm
~> sha1sum /usr/bin/xterm
c328e8f61000c326e05e230164c27cd944c8c97f  /usr/bin/xterm
~> ls -l /usr/bin/xterm
- -rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 298020 2007-01-10 17:35 /usr/bin/xterm

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (60, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.35.3
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE)

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1         2.4.2-1.2         generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                1:1.0.1-2         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5            5.5-5             Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                 1:1.0.1-3         X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                1:1.0.2-4         X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6               1:1.0.1-2         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                2.1.8.2-8         FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                1:1.0.2-2         X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.2-2         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps               1.0.1-2           Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  xutils                      1:7.1.ds.3-1 X Window System utility programs

- -- no debconf information

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Klaus Ethgen                            http://www.ethgen.de/
pub  2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>
Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE  EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B
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Hello,

I just did several debugging as the problem reappears randomly. And
finally I found the problem. First, it is not a bug of xterm than more
of pbuilder or even the kernel.

The problem appears if using pbuilder with the option (default)
USEDEVPTS=yes. The reason is that pbuilder do NOT specify the group of
the filesystem and so it defaults to 5(tty).

Well, this is the source of the problem. But the real problem is that
the kernel only provides ONE shared devpts! So after using pbuilder
every time the devpts is using the default group.

So, many thanks for the fast reaction. The bug is completely closed (It
was even not a bug (this time) of xterm.)

Regards
   Klaus Ethgen
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Klaus Ethgen                            http://www.ethgen.de/
pub  2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>
Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE  EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B
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