Bug 489166

hmm, I can't reproduce that... how did you end up with /dev/console?? normally you have /dev/tty[123456..] or /dev/pts/[123456..]

(In reply to comment #1)
> hmm, I can't reproduce that... how did you end up with /dev/console?? normally
> you have /dev/tty[123456..] or /dev/pts/[123456..]  

Oh, gosh.  It only happens when you boot in single user mode.

Hi Harald,

I believe I see what Bernie mentioned (although I don't think /dev/console is the problem).

F10 works correctly:
$ mesg y
$ mesg
is y
$ tty
/dev/pts/1
$ ls -l /dev/pts/1
crw--w---- 1 emcnabb tty 136, 1 2009-04-07 22:08 /dev/pts/1

However, the latest Rawhide (20090407) shows:
$ mesg y
mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'
$ mesg
is n
$ tty
/dev/pts/8
$ ls -l /dev/pts/8
crw--w---- 1 emcnabb emcnabb 136, 8 2009-04-07 22:09 /dev/pts/8

This only happens on locally opened terminals. If I ssh in it does set the tty group correctly. For example, pts/0 and pts/1 are gnome-terminal sessions, and pts/10 is a ssh connection:

$ ls -l /dev/pts/*
crw--w---- 1 emcnabb emcnabb 136,  0 2009-04-07 22:05 /dev/pts/0
crw--w---- 1 emcnabb emcnabb 136,  1 2009-04-07 18:14 /dev/pts/1
crw--w---- 1 emcnabb tty     136, 10 2009-04-07 22:09 /dev/pts/10
...

I hope this helps.

udev never sets the permission to the user... it's login or consolehelper which does this.

Ah, ok - I didn't realize that. Can you reassign this to the correct component? (ConsoleKit I assume)

Done.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Any idea how to fix this?  Since it worked in F10, I can't imagine it's a tough problem.  Hell, it's probably a one-liner.

I'd even look at it if someone could point me at the source.

(In reply to comment #8)
> Any idea how to fix this?  Since it worked in F10, I can't imagine it's a tough
> problem.  Hell, it's probably a one-liner.
> 
> I'd even look at it if someone could point me at the source.  

Are you the same Randell Jesup who wrote substantial parts of AmigaOS?
/me bows

(sorry for the offtopic)

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