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#1 2013-08-15 15:08:09
- tyr0
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[solved]glibc 2.18-1: terminal permission problem
Hi, after updating glibc from 2.17-6 to 2.18-1, I had problems starting terminals. urxvt gave me errors.
urxvt: can't initialize pseudo-tty, aborting.
urxvt: error while initializing new terminal instance at /usr/lib/urxvt/urxvt.pm line 1268.There are two threads ([1], [2]) dealing with the same problems and reinstalling glibc solved them in both cases, but not for me. After downgrading the package the problem is gone again.
Anybody else with these troubles?
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#2 2013-08-15 15:42:28
- brebs
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Re: [solved]glibc 2.18-1: terminal permission problem
You need /dev/pts, but remove it from /etc/fstab.
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#3 2013-08-15 15:52:42
- tyr0
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Re: [solved]glibc 2.18-1: terminal permission problem
Thank you for that hint. Indeed I had that line in my fstab. Everything solved now.
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#4 2013-08-17 11:20:14
- linas
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Re: [solved]glibc 2.18-1: terminal permission problem
«You need to manually remove /dev/pts from /etc/fstab» should be on the main page. “some people appear to have /dev/pts in their /etc/fstab file” is an understatement. Arch came with that line in fstab. It now breaks with an odd message, not even having delivered a pacman warning.
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#5 2013-08-17 11:27:55
- karol
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Re: [solved]glibc 2.18-1: terminal permission problem
Arch came with that line in fstab.
Maybe once it did, but fstab has been looking like this https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … filesystem for quite a while.
I think updating filesystem package should have produced a .pacnew file w/o /dev/pts.
Edit: Yup, it did: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124607 -> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … 3f21375d00
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#6 2013-08-17 13:02:38
- mtrath
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Re: [solved]glibc 2.18-1: terminal permission problem
I had a problem with xfce4 terminal. When I tried to start it, an error message appeared: Failed to execute child! grantpt failed: operation not permitted.
xterm has been working fine. The solution was to remove the pts line in fstab, like brebs said. I also removed the shm line, since systemd has adopted this task, too.
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#7 2013-08-23 05:23:23
- MisterAnderson
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Re: [solved]glibc 2.18-1: terminal permission problem
Maybe once it did, but fstab has been looking like this https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … filesystem for quite a while.
I think updating filesystem package should have produced a .pacnew file w/o /dev/pts.
Edit: Yup, it did: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124607 -> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … 3f21375d00
And if most users looked at the pacnew file with no note saying devpts is obsolete they would simply copy all entries from their old one across. This is what I did. It should be front page news to remove it.
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