Bug 65989

Summary:	cxterm-5.2.3 no available ptys
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Eric Brown <eric.brown>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	CJK Team <cjk>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Eric Brown 2004-09-30 22:30:33 UTC

when i try to run cxterm i get the error: no available ptys

the homepage says to chmod 666 /dev/pty/* to fix this on mandrake, but this doesn't help on gentoo



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.
7-gentoo-r11)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s
hare/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/
dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/c
onfig/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp
://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo
.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow aalib alsa avi berkdb bzlib cdr cjk crypt curl dga dgs divx4linux doc
 gif gtk2 jpeg mad matroska mmx mng mpeg msn ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pc
re perl png posix postgres python quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl tcpd ti
ff truetype unicode vhosts x86 xv xvid zlib"

Comment 1 Eric Brown 2004-11-14 13:09:25 UTC

I'm taking this upstream to see if they know why the fix reported on their site doesn't work.

Comment 2 Eric Brown 2004-11-14 13:36:02 UTC

attempted to contact 3 people upstream, all bad email addresses.
Someone with access to sf.net might be able to login and submit a bug, but I think cxterm removed legacy pty support, and that is what caused it to break (somehow it doesn't work with new ptys).

The weird thing is, my kernel has legacy BSD pty support on.. maybe it's broken in 2.6.7..

Comment 3 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-14 11:15:50 UTC

The package seems dead upstream.
Reassigning to CJK, as I couldn't even test it if I were able to fix the application, which is broken by design anyway.

Comment 4 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-23 01:48:10 UTC

Yeah, it looks the upstream is dead...
and chmod 666 /dev/pty/* works on my laptop.
(I'm using 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 kernel with Unix98 PTY 
and Legacy BSD PTY support)

Comment 5 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-25 12:14:36 UTC

The workaround for chmod 666 /dev/pty* doesn't work on my new Gentoo boxen
(though it worked on my laptop). I re-fetched source tarball from sf.net upstream
and recompiled it, and then it worked as expected. Someone forked from original source
to incorporate Unix98 PTY change but they didn't change source tarball's name.
If you still have trouble with this, please run emerge --sync and try again.