#5965: Check /dev/pts and /dev/shm requirement on Linux
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Reporter: tornaria | Owner: tornaria
Type: defect | Status: needs_info
Priority: critical | Milestone: sage-4.7.2
Component: distribution | Keywords: GAP PExpect cannot start server
pty pseudo ttys shared memory mount chroot
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author: Gonzalo Tornaria
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Changes (by leif):
* keywords: => GAP PExpect cannot start server pty pseudo ttys shared
memory mount chroot
* priority: major => critical
Comment:
Raising the priority to "critical" since this issue came up multiple times
recently, especially in server setups (which usually use a chroot
environment or virtualization), and also minimal Linux installations.
People are rather unlikely to immediately relate the failure in starting
GAP to pseudo ttys or device mounts.
Alternatively, we could catch / check for the pty error in the code that
creates PExpect interfaces, e.g. in `sage/interfaces/gap.py` (around line
903), in order to give a more appropriate error message.
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