[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#807091: xfce4-terminal fails to start with an error message

[tweber at debian.org (Thomas Weber)]

Package: xfce4-terminal
Version: 0.6.3-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Launching xfce4-terminal as normal user gives the following error message in an error window:
"Failed to execute child
grantpt failed: Operation not permitted"
After closing the error message, the terminal window appears, but there
is no shell started in it.
If I gain superuser rights via su and execute xfce4-terminal, the
terminal launches (with an error message saying "Failed to connect to
session manager: [...]".

Some reports on the internet suggested that this might be a permission
problem with /dev/pts. However, I do not have an entry for /dev/pts in
my /etc/fstab and the rights are as follows:
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)

This (non-)behaviour of xfce4-terminal is fairly new, but I cannot
pinpoint it to any recent update as I usually keep up just one instance
of the terminal for some time.

Thanks
Thomas


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages xfce4-terminal depends on:
ii  exo-utils           0.10.7-1
ii  libatk1.0-0         2.18.0-1
ii  libc6               2.21-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.32.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.46.2-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.28-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0      1.38.1-1
ii  libvte9             1:0.28.2-5+b1
ii  libx11-6            2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxfce4ui-1-0      4.12.1-2
ii  libxfce4util7       4.12.1-2

Versions of packages xfce4-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.10.6-1

xfce4-terminal suggests no packages.

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