severity 610839 wishlist kthxbye Hi,
yellow wrote: > Please screen is typed from the console (tty or under X11), on many > users and it gives that "Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/2' - > please check" > > First: > "please check" please remove it > It is not our job to check and fix the code of screen, First: That's not what it asks you to do. You are not asked to check code. You are asked to check the terminal device /dev/pts/2, e.g. for broken read or write permissions. Second: You bascially reported this "bug" already as http://bugs.debian.org/583644 with more information and less insulting, so I just merged them. > This bug is like the cancer of "Screen". No, this is bascially no bug. As you report in http://bugs.debian.org/583644 this happend to you after using "sux" (which is equivalent to "su", just preserving some X cookies). But su and sux do not create new terminals. They just open a shell under some other user in the _same_ terminal and that terminal still belongs to the original user and the user you "sux"ed to has neither read nor write permissions on the terminal device. But screen needs access to this terminal device to work, so screen does not work after su or sux unless some basic concpets of su or sux are changed: root@c-crosser:~# su - abe ?0 abe@c-crosser:pts/25 (-su) [~] > screen Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/25' - please check. ?1 abe@c-crosser:pts/25 (-su) [~] > ls -lF /dev/pts/25 crw------- 1 root tty 136, 25 Jan 30 00:34 /dev/pts/25 ?0 abe@c-crosser:pts/25 (-su) [~] > > Please fix it for once, and - well, so that there is not ever such > issue, appearing each time that a new distro is release. What you request is more or less a fundamental change in how su and sux work. Changing how something works fundamently is surely not an important bug, but at most a wishlist bug. Downgrading the bug accordingly. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
