120471 2006-01-26 14:47 0000 app-admin/zope-config , ncurses fail to found tty 2008-11-16 16:05:35 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Applications unspecified All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 vivo@gentoo.org net-zope@gentoo.org dickey@radix.net vivo@gentoo.org 2006-01-26 14:47:17 0000 Under certain circumstances, mine where ssh + chroot, if that mean something. "dialog" program, widely used inside the script, return an error "cannot open tty-output", like it was a terminal-less connection, the solution for me was to change all the occurencies where dialog is called in a subshell from: --- from --- USER=$(dialog --stdout \ --backtitle "Please choose a username and password for the initial user." \ --inputbox "Username:" 0 0 "admin") RESULT=$? --- from --- to --- to --- dialog --output-fd 3 \ --backtitle "Please choose a username and password for the initial user." \ --inputbox "Username:" 0 0 "admin" \ 3> "/tmp/${tmpfile}" RESULT=$? USER=$(< "/tmp/${tmpfile}" ) --- to --- may be other are affected, or is this one a misconfiguration issue of this particular box ? radek@gentoo.org 2006-05-28 10:16:09 0000 I was unable to reproduce this. Can You provide me more information, for example if it happened more than once? vivo@gentoo.org 2006-05-29 10:36:11 0000 it's a "corner case" it happen if "dialog" cannot find/use /dev/tty* feel free to fix as wontfix tupone@gentoo.org 2008-11-16 16:05:35 0000 Fixed in app-admin/zope-config-0.6. Thanks