From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: In FC1, after kermit started, I was able to type "ssh hostname" to form a connection. In FC2 after issuing that command, kermit just returns with a normal kermit prompt; no error is produced, but no connection is formed either. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start kermit 2. Type "ssh hostname", where hostname is the name of a ssh server 3. kermit will return after a few seconds. No connection. No error. Actual Results: No connection is made. No error is produced. Expected Results: A connection to hostname should be formed. I expected to see a terminal screen. Additional info:
I was able to fix this problem by downloading version 8.0.211 and recompiling from source. I do not know if it was a bug in kermit that was fixed, or if it was just that the recompile fixed a clash with a library. I suspect it was a problem with a library because the same binary used to work in FC1. If you have any questions please email me.
LEGACY_PTYS should be enabled in kernel config.
Why should they be enabled?? To the best of my knowledge, programs that use them need to be fixed to not use them.
I agree, but AFAIK version included in Fedora Core 2 (and also in Fedora Core 3 test 3) isn't fixed. I don't say this is right, but as a workaroud I need to enable LEGACY_PTYS.
Created attachment 106067 [details] patch adds "-DHAVE_PTMX" to KFLAGS in spec file