I pondered about writing this bug for a long time, as I figure I must have done something wrong or somebody else would have reported this total failure. Today I decided it can't be me. Without fail, and on every *Gentoo* system I have access to, splitvt fails with the same pty_open errors. Debian has had fixes for this problem for over 4 years, and perhaps they should be picked up? In http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-6.diff.gz, Debian is providing two useful chunks. One converts splitvt to use glibc routines for managing the terminals and the other fixes the location of the utmp file. Thanks for your time, and feel free to abuse me if I'm missing something obvious here. I'm only marking this bug as normal, because I believe that there is a possibility of PEBKAC. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start splitvt 2. 3. Actual Results: pty_open() error: Permission denied Expected Results: Two nice little "windows" containing bash prompts should have appeared ;) With the patch from the Debian package this problem is fixed, and you also have working(!) utmp support. Portage 2.0.51-r14 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808- r1, 2.6.11-rc2-jr3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-rc2-jr3 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 17 2004, 13:13:49)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r5 DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig distlocks maketest sandbox sfperms test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk/ http://www.mirrorservice.org/ sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http:// gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/ gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/part4/temp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/jnrowe /usr/local/overlays/matchbox /usr/ local/overlays/fixes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr chroot crypt encode escreen f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif graphviz gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib javascript jpeg lcms libcaca libg++ libwww mad mbox motif mpeg ncurses nntp no- old-linux nothemes nptl offensive oggvorbis oss pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype- fonts type1-fonts userlocales vim-with-x xml2 xosd xrandr xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/ share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
Created attachment 49406 [details, diff] Use the patch from Debian, to fix this and a few other issues with splitvt
Okay, I'm going to have to offload this one to someone else and remove myself as maintainer. It is segfault for me, so I can't test.
Fixed. Thanks very much for the report.
