Re: xterm operation not permitted
Re: xterm operation not permitted
- Subject: Re: xterm operation not permitted
- From: Jonathan Prescott via X11-users <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 21:30:52 -0500
As a data point, if it is relevant, rxvt has always worked from El Capitan,
which was when I bought this Mac, to Catalina today. Not sure if that is
important, but, it is an observation. ETerm was not working, but, I haven’t
upgraded it since the MacPorts upgrade. I normally used Apple’s Terminal, and
iTerm, but, xterm, et al, are useful once in awhile, which why I keep them
around.
Another point, the last time I installed xterm prior to today, the operating
system was Catalina 10.15.2. When I upgraded MacPorts today, my machine had
been upgraded to 10.15.3 in the interim. Your point about potential point
upgrade to the devices fixing the bug could be on point.
Jonathan
> On Feb 6, 2020, at 8:37 PM, Thomas Dickey <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 10:37:34AM -0500, Jonathan Prescott wrote:
>> Well, let’s just say that, on MacOS Catalina 10.15.3, the xterm I had
>> installed, the latest at the time from MacPorts, failed in the way everyone
>> has been noting lately. I did my periodic update of MacPorts, and I noticed
>> that xterm was updated this cycle. After the MacPorts update, xterm worked
>> like everyone is expecting. Now, whether it was xterm that was fixed, or an
>> X11 related library (that’s all I use MacPorts for), I couldn’t tell you.
>> However, it was not a change in the operating system, or XQuartz (not X11
>> server), since these didn’t change.
>
> I don't know - since nothing relevant changed in xterm (it's been almost
> all font-related/display-related things in the past year).
>
> A few years ago someone had a problem with those symptoms which was
> apparently due to MacOS/OSX associating permissions to the _pseudo terminal_.
>
> In a quick check, it seems I last revised that in 2011.
>
> I upgraded one of my machines to Catalina in October to investigate this
> (there are a couple of pty-interfaces which _could_ be used, and possibly
> Apple's broken a different one in Catalina), but found no corresponding
> problem (but that one started as Mohave - upgrades from older releases,
> I think, accumulate crud that Apple doesn't cleanup).
>
> If the problem is related to file-permissions (and acls), I suppose
> it's also possible that an unrelated upgrade will replace some
> file and suddenly relieve some bug. But I don't know to advise you
> on that -- only on things that I can reproduce :-)
>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>> On Feb 6, 2020, at 3:54 AM, Thomas Dickey <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> | From: "Apple X11 Users' List" <email@hidden>
>>> | To: "David Ledger" <email@hidden>
>>> | Cc: "Apple X11 Users' List" <email@hidden>
>>> | Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 9:35:37 PM
>>> | Subject: Re: xterm operation not permitted
>>>
>>> | I just updated my MacPorts distribution, and the new xterm seems to have
>>> been
>>> | fixed so that it works on Catalina as you would expect.
>>> | Jonathan
>>>
>>> that's not due to a change in xterm, but some permissions bug in the
>>> pseudo-terminal support.
>
> --
> Thomas E. Dickey <email@hidden>
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