2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[ismail dönmez]

Hi all,

Watch this sequence :


cartman@southpark:~$ echo "foo" > foo
cartman@southpark:~$ cat foo
foo
cartman@southpark:~$ less foo
cartman@southpark:~$ 

As you see less doesn't show up anything. Strace shows this piece of info :

<snip>

open("/dev/tty", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)  = 3
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbffff430) = -1 ENOTTY
(Inappropriate ioctl for device)

</snip>

Any ideas whats going on?

P.S : 2.6.8 was working just fine.


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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Paul Fulghum]

ismail dönmez wrote:
> cartman@southpark:~$ echo "foo" > foo
> cartman@southpark:~$ cat foo
> foo
> cartman@southpark:~$ less foo
> cartman@southpark:~$ 
> 
> As you see less doesn't show up anything. Strace shows this piece of info :
> 
> <snip>
> 
> open("/dev/tty", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)  = 3
> ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbffff430) = -1 ENOTTY
> (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
> 
> </snip>
> 
> Any ideas whats going on?
> 
> P.S : 2.6.8 was working just fine.

Since this involves the controlling tty, try backing out
selinux-revalidate-access-to-controlling-tty.patch
(available in the broken-out mm patches)

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[ismail dönmez]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:36:11 -0500, Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> wrote:
> Even if a feature is not be enabled,
> backing out a patch can verify it does not
> touch code outside of the feature.
> 

Indeed backing up selinux-revalidate-access-to-controlling-tty.patch
fixed "less" problem. But some other problems remain and the real
issue is /dev/tty is a directory now! :


cartman@southpark:~$ ls -al /dev/tty
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     0 2004-08-18 00:52 ./
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root     0 2004-08-17 21:53 ../
crw-------   1 root root 3, 10 2004-08-18 00:52 s
crw-------   1 root root 3,  0 2004-08-18 00:52 s0
crw-------   1 root root 3,  1 2004-08-18 00:52 s1
crw-------   1 root root 3,  2 2004-08-18 00:52 s2
crw-------   1 root root 3,  3 2004-08-18 00:52 s3
crw-------   1 root root 3,  4 2004-08-18 00:52 s4
crw-------   1 root root 3,  5 2004-08-18 00:52 s5
crw-------   1 root root 3,  6 2004-08-18 00:52 s6
crw-------   1 root root 3,  7 2004-08-18 00:52 s7
crw-------   1 root root 3,  8 2004-08-18 00:52 s8
crw-------   1 root root 3,  9 2004-08-18 00:52 s9


And this breaks many applications. Any idea why /dev/tty is a directory now?

Cheers,
ismail

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Paul Fulghum]

ismail dönmez wrote:

> But some other problems remain and the real
> issue is /dev/tty is a directory now! :
> 
> 
> cartman@southpark:~$ ls -al /dev/tty
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     0 2004-08-18 00:52 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  15 root root     0 2004-08-17 21:53 ../
> crw-------   1 root root 3, 10 2004-08-18 00:52 s
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  0 2004-08-18 00:52 s0
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  1 2004-08-18 00:52 s1
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  2 2004-08-18 00:52 s2
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  3 2004-08-18 00:52 s3
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  4 2004-08-18 00:52 s4
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  5 2004-08-18 00:52 s5
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  6 2004-08-18 00:52 s6
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  7 2004-08-18 00:52 s7
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  8 2004-08-18 00:52 s8
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  9 2004-08-18 00:52 s9
> 
> 
> And this breaks many applications. Any idea why /dev/tty is a directory now?

That does not look right.
Char dev 3 is the pty major.
This could be left over from running with the controlling-tty patch.

Try recreating /dev/tty as a char special file:
mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[ismail dönmez]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:31:34 -0500, Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> wrote:
> 
> Try recreating /dev/tty as a char special file:
> mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0
> 

Yes totally works! 

Cheers,
ismail

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[ismail dönmez]

> That does not look right.
> Char dev 3 is the pty major.
> This could be left over from running with the controlling-tty patch.
> 
> Try recreating /dev/tty as a char special file:
> mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0

Hmm I use udev and /dev/tty dir is created again at startup. So
something else is broken too I think.


Cheers,
ismail


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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Paul Fulghum]

ismail dönmez wrote:

>>That does not look right.
>>Char dev 3 is the pty major.
>>This could be left over from running with the controlling-tty patch.
>>
>>Try recreating /dev/tty as a char special file:
>>mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0
> 
> 
> Hmm I use udev and /dev/tty dir is created again at startup. So
> something else is broken too I think.

This is almost certainly related to the addition
of pty devices to devfs in bk-driver-core.patch
Change is by olh@suse.de

This explains why you are seein pty major devices
created in a /dev/tty directory.

Specifically the changes in drivers/char/tty_io.c
in function tty_register_device()

Try backing out that specific portion of bk-driver-core.patch

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[ismail dönmez]

CC'ing Andrew too.

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:05:38 -0500, Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> wrote:
> This is almost certainly related to the addition
> of pty devices to devfs in bk-driver-core.patch
> Change is by olh@suse.de
> 
> This explains why you are seein pty major devices
> created in a /dev/tty directory.
> 
> Specifically the changes in drivers/char/tty_io.c
> in function tty_register_device()
> 
> Try backing out that specific portion of bk-driver-core.patch

Backed out whole bk-driver-core.patch and everything works as
expected. Thanks for help.

Cheers,
ismail

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Olaf Hering]

 On Tue, Aug 17, Paul Fulghum wrote:

> ismail dönmez wrote:
> 
> >>That does not look right.
> >>Char dev 3 is the pty major.
> >>This could be left over from running with the controlling-tty patch.
> >>
> >>Try recreating /dev/tty as a char special file:
> >>mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0
> >
> >
> >Hmm I use udev and /dev/tty dir is created again at startup. So
> >something else is broken too I think.
> 
> This is almost certainly related to the addition
> of pty devices to devfs in bk-driver-core.patch
> Change is by olh@suse.de
> 
> This explains why you are seein pty major devices
> created in a /dev/tty directory.

/dev/tty is supposed to be char c 5 0, /class/tty/tty/dev will tell udev
how to create it, see man 4 tty.
No idea who came up with the bright idea to put legacy bsd devices in a
subdir. Documentation/devices.txt shows that my patch is ok, it handles
up to 256 device nodes.
If you are using udev, file a bugreport for your distros package. In the
meantime, remove the offending line from your udev.rules file.

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[ismail dönmez]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:22:10 +0200, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote: 
> /dev/tty is supposed to be char c 5 0, /class/tty/tty/dev will tell udev
> how to create it, see man 4 tty.
> No idea who came up with the bright idea to put legacy bsd devices in a
> subdir. Documentation/devices.txt shows that my patch is ok, it handles
> up to 256 device nodes.
> If you are using udev, file a bugreport for your distros package. In the
> meantime, remove the offending line from your udev.rules file.

I don't think you understood me. /dev/tty is created as a char device
in 2.6.8.1 kernel. So I am sure udev is fine but it shows up as a
directory in 2.6.8.1-mm1 kernel and if I backup bk-driver-core.patch
its all normal again.

Cheers,
ismail


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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Olaf Hering]

 On Wed, Aug 18, ismail dönmez wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:22:10 +0200, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote: 
> > /dev/tty is supposed to be char c 5 0, /class/tty/tty/dev will tell udev
> > how to create it, see man 4 tty.
> > No idea who came up with the bright idea to put legacy bsd devices in a
> > subdir. Documentation/devices.txt shows that my patch is ok, it handles
> > up to 256 device nodes.
> > If you are using udev, file a bugreport for your distros package. In the
> > meantime, remove the offending line from your udev.rules file.
> 
> I don't think you understood me. /dev/tty is created as a char device
> in 2.6.8.1 kernel. So I am sure udev is fine but it shows up as a
> directory in 2.6.8.1-mm1 kernel and if I backup bk-driver-core.patch
> its all normal again.

Works fine here.
Check you udev.rules file if some rule matches the pattern ptyp0.

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Martin Schlemmer]

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On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 08:42, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Wed, Aug 18, ismail dönmez wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:22:10 +0200, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote: 
> > > /dev/tty is supposed to be char c 5 0, /class/tty/tty/dev will tell udev
> > > how to create it, see man 4 tty.
> > > No idea who came up with the bright idea to put legacy bsd devices in a
> > > subdir. Documentation/devices.txt shows that my patch is ok, it handles
> > > up to 256 device nodes.
> > > If you are using udev, file a bugreport for your distros package. In the
> > > meantime, remove the offending line from your udev.rules file.
> > 
> > I don't think you understood me. /dev/tty is created as a char device
> > in 2.6.8.1 kernel. So I am sure udev is fine but it shows up as a
> > directory in 2.6.8.1-mm1 kernel and if I backup bk-driver-core.patch
> > its all normal again.
> 
> Works fine here.
> Check you udev.rules file if some rule matches the pattern ptyp0.

Hmm, Ok, so I see we have pty devices in there as well.  Ismail, what
tries to use /dev/tty anyhow?

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Tonnerre]

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Saut,

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:58:37PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> Ismail, what tries to use /dev/tty anyhow?

It's  the standard  UN*X way  of  finding your  controlling TTY:  open
/dev/tty and  do an  isatty on it.  So I'd  suppose around 90%  of the
console software does that.

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Martin Schlemmer]

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On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 19:28, Tonnerre wrote:
> Saut,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:58:37PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > Ismail, what tries to use /dev/tty anyhow?
> 
> It's  the standard  UN*X way  of  finding your  controlling TTY:  open
> /dev/tty and  do an  isatty on it.  So I'd  suppose around 90%  of the
> console software does that.
> 

Yes sorry, I was on drugs.

Greg, below patch should be in order.

---
--- /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules.orig        2004-08-19 21:17:08.947911536 +0200
+++ /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules     2004-08-19 21:22:48.804245520 +0200
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@

 # pty devices
 KERNEL="pty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/m%n", SYMLINK="%k"
-KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="tty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k"
+KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k"

 # ramdisk devices
 KERNEL="ram[0-9]*", NAME="rd/%n", SYMLINK="%k"
---

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Olaf Hering]

 On Thu, Aug 19, Martin Schlemmer wrote:

> Greg, below patch should be in order.
> 
> ---
> --- /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules.orig        2004-08-19 21:17:08.947911536 +0200
> +++ /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules     2004-08-19 21:22:48.804245520 +0200
> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
> 
>  # pty devices
>  KERNEL="pty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/m%n", SYMLINK="%k"
> -KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="tty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k"
> +KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k"

Dont forget to update Documentation/devices.txt


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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Martin Schlemmer]

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On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 21:24, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Thu, Aug 19, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> 
> > Greg, below patch should be in order.
> > 
> > ---
> > --- /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules.orig        2004-08-19 21:17:08.947911536 +0200
> > +++ /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules     2004-08-19 21:22:48.804245520 +0200
> > @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
> > 
> >  # pty devices
> >  KERNEL="pty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/m%n", SYMLINK="%k"
> > -KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="tty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k"
> > +KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="pty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k"
> 
> Dont forget to update Documentation/devices.txt

Its part of the udev 'devfs compat' ruleset, so not what would
have been created standard.  I checked the code again and devfs
use /dev/pty/s# and not /dev/tty/s#, so it somewhere that either
I or one of the others made a boo-boo that did the original of
that rule file ...

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Martin Schlemmer]

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On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 21:43, ismail dönmez wrote:
> > That does not look right.
> > Char dev 3 is the pty major.
> > This could be left over from running with the controlling-tty patch.
> > 
> > Try recreating /dev/tty as a char special file:
> > mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0
> 
> Hmm I use udev and /dev/tty dir is created again at startup. So
> something else is broken too I think.
> 

Just fix the permissions in
/etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions, and file a bug with
your distribution if its not self-compiled.

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Paul Fulghum]

ismail dönmez wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:36:11 -0500, Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> wrote:
> 
>>Even if a feature is not be enabled,
>>backing out a patch can verify it does not
>>touch code outside of the feature.
>>
> 
> 
> Indeed backing up selinux-revalidate-access-to-controlling-tty.patch
> fixed "less" problem. But some other problems remain and the real
> issue is /dev/tty is a directory now! :
> 
> 
> cartman@southpark:~$ ls -al /dev/tty
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     0 2004-08-18 00:52 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  15 root root     0 2004-08-17 21:53 ../
> crw-------   1 root root 3, 10 2004-08-18 00:52 s
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  0 2004-08-18 00:52 s0
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  1 2004-08-18 00:52 s1
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  2 2004-08-18 00:52 s2
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  3 2004-08-18 00:52 s3
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  4 2004-08-18 00:52 s4
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  5 2004-08-18 00:52 s5
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  6 2004-08-18 00:52 s6
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  7 2004-08-18 00:52 s7
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  8 2004-08-18 00:52 s8
> crw-------   1 root root 3,  9 2004-08-18 00:52 s9
> 
> 
> And this breaks many applications. Any idea why /dev/tty is a directory now?

Olaf, Greg:

The addition of pty devices to sysfs in bk-driver-core.patch
of 2.6.8.1-mm1 seems to be causing the problem described above.
See the rest of this thread for more details.

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Martin Schlemmer]

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On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 23:04, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> ismail dönmez wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:36:11 -0500, Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>Even if a feature is not be enabled,
> >>backing out a patch can verify it does not
> >>touch code outside of the feature.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Indeed backing up selinux-revalidate-access-to-controlling-tty.patch
> > fixed "less" problem. But some other problems remain and the real
> > issue is /dev/tty is a directory now! :
> > 
> > 
> > cartman@southpark:~$ ls -al /dev/tty
> > total 0
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     0 2004-08-18 00:52 ./
> > drwxr-xr-x  15 root root     0 2004-08-17 21:53 ../
> > crw-------   1 root root 3, 10 2004-08-18 00:52 s
> > crw-------   1 root root 3,  0 2004-08-18 00:52 s0
> > crw-------   1 root root 3,  1 2004-08-18 00:52 s1
> > crw-------   1 root root 3,  2 2004-08-18 00:52 s2
> > crw-------   1 root root 3,  3 2004-08-18 00:52 s3
> > crw-------   1 root root 3,  4 2004-08-18 00:52 s4
> > crw-------   1 root root 3,  5 2004-08-18 00:52 s5
> > crw-------   1 root root 3,  6 2004-08-18 00:52 s6
> > crw-------   1 root root 3,  7 2004-08-18 00:52 s7
> > crw-------   1 root root 3,  8 2004-08-18 00:52 s8
> > crw-------   1 root root 3,  9 2004-08-18 00:52 s9
> > 
> > 
> > And this breaks many applications. Any idea why /dev/tty is a directory now?
> 
> Olaf, Greg:
> 
> The addition of pty devices to sysfs in bk-driver-core.patch
> of 2.6.8.1-mm1 seems to be causing the problem described above.
> See the rest of this thread for more details.
> 

He has the wrong permissions in
/etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions (or whatever), or no
entry for it, and his default_mode (in /etc/udev/udev.conf) is very
restrictive, or he does not use pam_console (or using it with a
display manager?), or add some other explanation.  Personally I would
just say that he/his_distribution should fix the shipped
udev.permissions.

Apart from above, I cannot say anything is wrong with the addition of
tty's to sysfs, and if its the same in functionality as the old patch
from Greg, then I ran it for months no problem.


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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[ismail dönmez]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:36:02 +0200, Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org> 
> He has the wrong permissions in
> /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions (or whatever), or no
> entry for it, and his default_mode (in /etc/udev/udev.conf) is very
> restrictive, or he does not use pam_console (or using it with a
> display manager?), or add some other explanation.  Personally I would
> just say that he/his_distribution should fix the shipped
> udev.permissions.

I run Slackware 10 and got this in /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions :

# console devices
console:root:tty:0600
tty:root:tty:0666
tty[0-9][0-9]*:root:tty:0660
vc/[0-9]*:root:tty:0660


But the real problem is not permissions but the fact that /dev/tty is
a directory now not a character device. Is this intended? If yes this
will break many userspace applications which will assume /dev/tty is a
character device. Greg can you please comment?

Cheers,
ismail

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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Martin Schlemmer]

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On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 07:44, ismail dönmez wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:36:02 +0200, Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org> 
> > He has the wrong permissions in
> > /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions (or whatever), or no
> > entry for it, and his default_mode (in /etc/udev/udev.conf) is very
> > restrictive, or he does not use pam_console (or using it with a
> > display manager?), or add some other explanation.  Personally I would
> > just say that he/his_distribution should fix the shipped
> > udev.permissions.
> 
> I run Slackware 10 and got this in /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions :
> 
> # console devices
> console:root:tty:0600
> tty:root:tty:0666
> tty[0-9][0-9]*:root:tty:0660
> vc/[0-9]*:root:tty:0660
> 
> 
> But the real problem is not permissions but the fact that /dev/tty is
> a directory now not a character device. Is this intended? If yes this
> will break many userspace applications which will assume /dev/tty is a
> character device. Greg can you please comment?
> 

---
# ls -l /dev/tty
crw-rw-rw-  1 root tty 5, 0 Aug 16 20:25 /dev/tty
---

I think its something else - most likely a rule in
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules ?  Could you post that
(or /etc/udev/rules.conf or whatever file is applicable) ?


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Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:44:28AM +0300, ismail d?nmez wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:36:02 +0200, Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org> 
> > He has the wrong permissions in
> > /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions (or whatever), or no
> > entry for it, and his default_mode (in /etc/udev/udev.conf) is very
> > restrictive, or he does not use pam_console (or using it with a
> > display manager?), or add some other explanation.  Personally I would
> > just say that he/his_distribution should fix the shipped
> > udev.permissions.
> 
> I run Slackware 10 and got this in /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions :
> 
> # console devices
> console:root:tty:0600
> tty:root:tty:0666
> tty[0-9][0-9]*:root:tty:0660
> vc/[0-9]*:root:tty:0660
> 
> 
> But the real problem is not permissions but the fact that /dev/tty is
> a directory now not a character device. Is this intended? If yes this
> will break many userspace applications which will assume /dev/tty is a
> character device. Greg can you please comment?

/dev/tty is a char device on my system.  Perhaps your rules files are
making that not happen properly.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Paul Fulghum]

ismail dönmez wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Watch this sequence :
> 
> 
> cartman@southpark:~$ echo "foo" > foo
> cartman@southpark:~$ cat foo
> foo
> cartman@southpark:~$ less foo
> cartman@southpark:~$ 
> 
> As you see less doesn't show up anything. Strace shows this piece of info :
> 
> <snip>
> 
> open("/dev/tty", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)  = 3
> ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbffff430) = -1 ENOTTY
> (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
> 
> </snip>
> 
> Any ideas whats going on?
> 
> P.S : 2.6.8 was working just fine.

Stephen, James, Andrew:

the selinux-revalidate-access-to-controlling-tty patch
seems to be causing the problem with less program as
shown above. See the rest of this thread for more details.

--
Paul Fulghum
paulkf@microgate.com

Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Stephen Smalley]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 17:00, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> Stephen, James, Andrew:
> 
> the selinux-revalidate-access-to-controlling-tty patch
> seems to be causing the problem with less program as
> shown above. See the rest of this thread for more details.

I find that puzzling, given that flush_unauthorized_files is only called
if the process is changing SIDs on exec, and running less certainly
doesn't involve a SID transition (at least for any policy that I have
seen).  I tried the sequence shown with 2.6.8.1-mm1 with SELinux enabled
and disabled, and did not see the behavior he describes.  Is the bug
reproducible?  Was he running with SELinux enabled or disabled?  What
policy did he have loaded?

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency

Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Paul Fulghum]

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> I find that puzzling, given that flush_unauthorized_files is only called
> if the process is changing SIDs on exec, and running less certainly
> doesn't involve a SID transition (at least for any policy that I have
> seen).  I tried the sequence shown with 2.6.8.1-mm1 with SELinux enabled
> and disabled, and did not see the behavior he describes.  Is the bug
> reproducible?  Was he running with SELinux enabled or disabled?  What
> policy did he have loaded?

According to Ismail:
* The problem is reproducible.
* SELinux is disabled.
* With the patch the problem occurs.
* With the patch reversed, the problem went away.

Unfortunately, this appears to be mixed up with
another 2.6.8.1-mm1 change causing udev to garble
the creation of /dev/tty and pty devices.

Applying/reversing the controlling-tty patch in isolation
creates/corrects the symptom with the less program,
so there seems to be some relation.

--
Paul Fulghum
paulkf@microgate.com

Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[ismail dönmez]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:05:27 -0500, Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> wrote:
> Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > I find that puzzling, given that flush_unauthorized_files is only called
> > if the process is changing SIDs on exec, and running less certainly
> > doesn't involve a SID transition (at least for any policy that I have
> > seen).  I tried the sequence shown with 2.6.8.1-mm1 with SELinux enabled
> > and disabled, and did not see the behavior he describes.  Is the bug
> > reproducible?  Was he running with SELinux enabled or disabled?  What
> > policy did he have loaded?
> 
> According to Ismail:
> * The problem is reproducible.
> * SELinux is disabled.
> * With the patch the problem occurs.
> * With the patch reversed, the problem went away.
> 
> Unfortunately, this appears to be mixed up with
> another 2.6.8.1-mm1 change causing udev to garble
> the creation of /dev/tty and pty devices.
> 
> Applying/reversing the controlling-tty patch in isolation
> creates/corrects the symptom with the less program,
> so there seems to be some relation.
> 
> --
> Paul Fulghum
> paulkf@microgate.com
> 


The problem ended up as a problem in Slackware's default udev.rules
file. Now I'm running vanilla -mm1 and everything works. Thank you all
for your attention!

Cheers,
ismail


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