when i run screen from withing xterm or rxvt window as a regular user i get: /var/run/screen/S-doli/7513.pts-1.1g: No such file or directory if i run it as root everything works smoothly. on top of that, screen works smoothly under 'regular' shell from outside of xwindows doli@1g ~ $ ls -l `which screen` -rwxr-s--x 1 root utmp 506952 Oct 14 21:16 /usr/bin/screen doli@1g ~ $ ls -l /var/run | grep screen drwxrwxr-x 4 root utmp 120 Oct 14 21:16 screen any idea whats wrong with this? my emerge info: Portage 2.0.53_rc5 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -march=pentium3 -O3 -fstack-protector -funroll-all-loops" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -march=pentium3 -O3 -fstack-protector -funroll-all-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr -uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync3.se.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X berkdb bitmap-fonts caps chroot crypt eds emboss gd glibc-omitfp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hard ened hpn jpeg minimal mmx mp3 ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg pam pam_chroot pam_timestamp perl png pthreads python readline sftplogging slang speex sse ssl symlink tcpd threads truetype type1-fonts vorbis zlib u serland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
additional info if i su to root and then back to issuing user, like this: su - su - user screen then screen runs with no problems at all - the only thing is that i have to set up x display again. i also tried doing: bash --login screen but with same as reported earlier effect.
I'm having the same error. It works just fine as root, and if I su from root to my normal user, it also works. 2Additionally (probably related?) the title of the terminal I am using changes to: "Could not write /var/run/utmp: No such process" Here is my emerge info: irasnyd@yuki ~ $ emerge info Portage 2.0.53_rc6 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-archck7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-archck7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-addr -fweb -ftracer -funit-at-a-time" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-addr -fweb -ftracer -funit-at-a-time -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/gentopia" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac alsa ao apm avi berkdb bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dbus dvd dvdr dvdread emboss fam fbcon ffmpeg flac freetype gdbm gif gimpprint glitz gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal imagemagick imlib java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses no_wxgtk1 nowebdav nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real sdl slang spell sse ssl tcpd theora threads truetype truetype-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xine xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS This is using app-misc/screen-4.0.2-r4 Thanks!
Works just fine here w/ 4.0.3.
