[X2Go-User] Nightly Build Badly Broke

Robert Dinse nanook at eskimo.com
Fri Feb 5 01:27:06 CET 2016


      No mesg call at all on that machine either in my privite initialization
files or in /etc/profile and /etc/profile.d/* files.  I do see it .history so
something is calling it but hell if I can figure out what.

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On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Mihai Moldovan wrote:

> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 00:50:51 +0100
> From: Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de>
> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>,
>     "x2go-user at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Nightly Build Badly Broke
> 
> On 01.02.2016 08:27 PM, Robert Dinse wrote:
>>
>>       I just upgraded to nightly build and it is horribly broken on Ubuntu Wily.
>> When I try to connect to a remote site I get:
>>
>>       Connection failed. mesg: ttyname failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>
>>       I can no longer connect to anything.
>
> Please
>
> grep 'mesg' ~/.*
> grep -R 'mesg' /etc/
>
> on the remote machine. If there is an mesg call not guarded by tty -s, that's
> broken. Question then is: was this call added by you, or is this a bug in the
> Ubuntu files themselves?
>
> What you saw is a side-effect of switching to login shells by default.
>
>
>
> Mihai
>
>
>


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