Ubuntu
mingetty package

can not invoked in shell

Bug #1444279 reported by Lingyu Zhu on 2015-04-15

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	mingetty (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Package: mingetty
Version: 1.08-2
Severity: normal

The program works fine if it is invoked by init the default way. But it exits with error when it is invoked by user's command line.
I digged a little and found out it is the call to ioctl(fd,TIOCSCTTY,1) in open_tty().
This bug was confirmed as #51756 and fixed in debian bug track system. However, the added 'setsid()' no longer exsists in 1.08-2 version.

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Lingyu Zhu (lynuszhu) wrote on 2015-04-15:

a patch generated by quilt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain)

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2015-04-15:

The attachment "a patch generated by quilt" seems to be a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. If the attachment isn't a patch, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are member of the ~ubuntu-sponsors, unsubscribe the team.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2015-08-14:

Thanks for your work, the patch seems reversed though? The package is also in sync with Debian, could you send your changes to their bug tracker as well?

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2015-09-04:

I confirm your analysis of this bug. I also concur with Seb's recommendation that you forward this bug upstream to the Debian maintainer. The mingetty package is a seldom-used package in Ubuntu universe which is currently in sync with Debian, it doesn't seem to make sense to carry a delta in Ubuntu for this issue.

Please use 'reportbug -B debian mingetty' to forward this bug report to the maintainer.