Hi,
I have been experiencing a strange problem lately on my debian laptop. I am not sure whether it is debian related or kernel related, but I could not find any mention of such a problem on the kernel archives, so I am trying to ask here. Here is the problem: If no terminal is already opened and an ordinary user tries to open a wterm, it will fail with the message: "wterm: can't open slave tty /dev/pts/0". It would work if root tries to open it. Likewise, an ordinary user cannot open /dev/pts/1, but root can. At this point, it gets really strange: assume that root has already opened two terminals, so that the first free slave terminal is /dev/pts/2. This one (and apparently all the terminals numbered above 1) can be opened by an ordinary user... I did not realize this problem until now because I was using an old version of aterm that does not use the UNIX98 PTY's, so I cannot tell if it is due to the last kernel change (to 2.4.0). This behaviour is consistent among all the terminal emulators that have been compiled to use the new framework: xterm, aterm, rxvt, wterm all behave the same. I am running libc6 version 2.2.1-1, with a kernel 2.4.0 in which I have configured the use of the devfs architecture. Any ideas ? Please also CC answers to me, since I do not read actively the zillions of messages going through this list. Thanks, Francois -- François Gelis / BNL - Nuclear Theory / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
