I found this thread from http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4026 using good old google
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 01:35:08 -0700, Allan Espinosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:24:00 +0800, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess one of those formatting commands broke, and shuts down with an > > 'exit(1)'. (return value is exit value * 256 + signal number). > > > > Could you run the commands one by one? > Yes Okay comment posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 22, 2004 - 01:54 It's Legacy BSD ptys that are broken (or incompatibly changed). Deactivates them and less (as well as patch) works. I made up a bug report for that (do not remember the bug #, sorry). [ reply to this comment ] Thanks! Disabled Legacy BSD a Okay comment posted by scottharmon on Friday, October 22, 2004 - 14:17 Thanks! Disabled Legacy BSD and less now works. [ reply to this comment ] Less and pty Okay comment posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 10:45 I had the same problem using the Slackware 10.0. The problem was fixed not disabling the Legacy BSD, bu simply changing one (bad) line in /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules the bad string was: KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="tty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k" in that string substitute tty/s%n with pty/s%n -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
