[88] in Athena User Interface
Re: gnome-terminal doesn't work.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Wed May 31 16:03:31 2000
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To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 May 2000 17:23:56 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 16:03:18 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
I traced this, and found that zvt (gnome-libs/zvt), a terminal widget,
uses a suid root helper program. Apparently the old install had been
frobbed by someone with appropriate bits, but the install done by me
was not. "gnome-terminal --nowtmp --noutmp --nodbupdate" works.
There are a couple of options:
1) make the helper program setuid root. This is the easiest solution.
2) fix zvt so that it is possible to build it without the setuid root
functionality. This is the best solution, but is unlikely to be
a good use of our resources.
3) fix zvt in some kludgy way.
4) submit a bug report, look at it again in 3 months.
I suggest doing 1 and 4. Comments? Someone bitful willing to volunteer
to implement 1?
tibbetts
On 5/23 I wrote:
> gnome-terminal doesn't work any more. It seems to hang after creating
> all of its windows, but before drawing anything interesting. Kinda
> wierd. Just letting people know.
>
> I think it is an issue with libzvt for some reason (it sticks in the
> back of my head that at some point I saw wierdness in the libzvt build
> and said to myself "That will probably make gnome-terminal fail"). I
> will deal with this in the near future, unless someone else wants to
> grab it first.
>
> tibbetts
>
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