thanks Roland dgk found this yesterday and its now fixed there will be a patch shortly for this and the other problems noted since 2008-02-02
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:58:33 +0100 Roland Mainz wrote: > Bill Shannon wrote: > > The only occurrences of the word "tty" in my dots files are: > > > > $ grep -w tty .profile .kshrc > > .profile:else # normal tty login > > .kshrc:if [ `tty` != /dev/console ] > AFAIK I found the problem; the builtin "tty" has a small glitch which > causes it to always print "not on an active synchronous line": > -- snip -- > $ tty > /dev/pts/2 > not on an active synchronous line
