From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Wed 04 May 2005 - 02:11:32 BST
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:24:11PM +0200, Arjen wrote:
> On 3/5/05 10:55 am, "Werner Schalk" <werner_schalk_at_gmx.de> wrote:
> > My system is Gentoo, and I am still using util-vserver X on
> > 2.6.11-rc3-vs1.9.4. My USE flags do include "vserver" and portage overlay is
> > set to /usr/local/portage (both inside the vserver). When I execute mc inside
> > the vserver I also get "mc subshell.c: couldn't open master side of pty
> > pty_open_master: No such file or directory"
>
> Sounds familiar. I've tried several gentoo vserver installs, with the
> portage overlay, without it (normal install) and using baselayout-vserver as
> the baselayout. None of them would start flawless, you'll have to edit
> around 7 or 8 initscripts (add the 'exit 0' on top of the script) or remove
> them from the startupsequence using rc-update (rc-update del checkfs boot).
>
> This might give you a clean startup but I think this is not the right thing
> to do. Why, well because we could break things this way. Like you I'm
> experiencing issues with tty's. I've got similar problems using screen and
> ssh. Ever tried to ssh from one vserver to another vserver? Or started a
> screen session inside a vserver? I think the problem has something to do
hmm, did you verify that your user is in the 'tty' group?
> with /dev/tty*,
> crw-rw---- 1 root tty 5, 0 Mar 4 14:39 /dev/tty (inside the vserver)
> Compare it with /dev/tty in the host,
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 0 May 1 22:32 /dev/tty (in the host)
>
> It could be I'm missing something at startup which changes these settings
> because of the 'exit 0''s in some of the initscripts. I stopped trying to
> solve this, but since you seem to have a similar problem maybe someone has a
> bright moment reading this :)
well, both, ssh _and_ screen work here .. which doesn't mean
much as the version I tested on is 2.4/1.2.10 ...
best,
Herbert
> Cheers,
> -Arjen
>
>
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