Package: rungetty
Version: 1.2-13
Severity: important
I tried to use rungetty to present a nice text menu on a live-helper
built Debian CD (Lenny), but rungetty refused to run. So I tried again
on a regular system and the same problem occured. I tried to run:
rungetty -u root -g root --autologin root tty8 -- /bin/true
(and tried again with:)
rungetty -u root -g root -- /bin/true
In both cases, the syslog output is:
rungetty[28322]: /dev/tty8: cannot open tty: Operation not permitted
When I run it via strace, I get:
[..]
chown32("/dev/tty8", 0, 0) = 0
chmod("/dev/tty8", 0600) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {SIG_IGN}, NULL, 8) = 0
open("/dev/tty8", O_RDWR) = 3
ioctl(3, TIOCSCTTY) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
[..]
On some of my other systems it runs nice, but I don't know what's the
difference. I may contribute some strace output of a working rungetty
if you want (as soon as I get home).
Debian Release: 5.0.8
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages rungetty depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
rungetty recommends no packages.
rungetty suggests no packages.
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