Re: [Q] How do I get rid of 'no utmp entry available'

[Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>]

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@rosebud.sps.queensu.ca> writes:

> Sure, we know that. The question is why xterm manages to write such an entry,
> and rxvt fails. Both have identical modes:
> 
> edd@miles:~> ls -lL /usr/bin/X11/{xterm,rxvt}
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        59420 Apr 20 15:06 /usr/bin/X11/rxvt
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root       145856 Jun 20 10:45 /usr/bin/X11/xterm    
> 
> and both are linked against libc5:
> 
> edd@miles:~> ldd /usr/bin/X11/{xterm,rxvt}
> /usr/bin/X11/xterm:
>         libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000b000)
>         libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4005e000)
>         libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40070000)
>         libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400b2000)
>         libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400bb000)
>         libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400d0000)
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400db000)
>         libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x40179000)
>         libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401b5000)
> /usr/bin/X11/rxvt:
>         libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4000b000)
>         libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40014000)
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40029000)
>         libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x400c7000)               

The answer is simple: the version 2.20 of rxvt has a bug.  This bug
has been fixed in the alpha versions of rxvt currently under
development.  I've fixed the problem for version 2.20-6, which shall
be uploaded presently.

Brian


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