[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#807091: Bug#807091: xfce4-terminal fails to start with an error message
control: severity -1 important
control: tag -1 unreproducible moreinfo
On sam., 2015-12-05 at 11:04 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> 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.
Well, I surely can't reproduce, so you'll need to investigate more on your
side. Try running it through strace to check exactly where the grantpt
operation is failed.
In any case, it doesn't look xfce4-terminal related at first sight.
Regards,
--
Yves-Alexis
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