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xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied

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Lee Bradshaw

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May 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM5/22/00
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I've upgraded several systems from slink to potato using a mirror I
made a few weeks ago. On some of the systems xterm works fine, but on
others it generates the error message:

xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied

rxvt works fine and seems to have the same permissions as xterm:

-rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 81616 Mar 18 12:40 /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt-xterm*
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 161680 Mar 13 22:07 /usr/bin/X11/xterm*

I'm using xterm 3.3.6-6 which seems to be the latest available. I
can't "strace xterm", and I'm not sure what to look at without more
information than I see in the error message. Anyone else have any
ideas?

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Lee Bradshaw

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May 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM5/23/00
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Unfortnately I deleted the email, but I believe Darren sent me a
private email saying the permissions on /dev/tty were wrong.

Anyway the permissions on /dev/tty were incorrect. On the non-working
machines this device was owned by a user and was rw by him only. I
changed the device to "crw-rw-rw- root:tty" and things are working
correctly now.

Ethan Benson

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May 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM5/23/00
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On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:47:13PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> I've upgraded several systems from slink to potato using a mirror I
> made a few weeks ago. On some of the systems xterm works fine, but on
> others it generates the error message:

>=20


> xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied

>=20


> rxvt works fine and seems to have the same permissions as xterm:

>=20
> -rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 81616 Mar 18 12:40 /usr/X11R6/bin/=
rxvt-xterm*
> -rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 161680 Mar 13 22:07 /usr/bin/X11/xt=
erm*

hmm just a wild guess but is /var/run/utmp and/or /var/log/wtmp
writable by group utmp?

> I'm using xterm 3.3.6-6 which seems to be the latest available. I
> can't "strace xterm", and I'm not sure what to look at without more
> information than I see in the error message. Anyone else have any
> ideas?

you cannot strace a s[ug]id program, otherwise you could strace things
like su and gain access to shadow passwords, among other nasty things
(like run them through a debugger and make them start a shell instead)

--=20
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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