X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FAKE_REPLY_C,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL,TW_RX,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:24:38 -0700 From: Jeff Schenck To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: GNU screen won't run; "chown tty: no such file or directory" Message-ID: <20110618062438.GA3254@chomsky.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-ELNK-Trace: 4e5d418dd236dadcf3d5921ade94fe614d2b10475b571120a1f8eda023de088c6653b81360d4e4045e235e6b654414de350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 6/13/2011 9:03 PM, Larry Hall wrote: >On 6/13/2011 1:28 AM, Jeff Schenck wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> When trying to run screen, I get the following errors: >> "chown tty: No such file or directory" in the status bar, >> followed by "Sorry, could not find a PTY". Then it exits. >> I get the same error in all terminal types I've tried -- >> rxvt-native, xterm, and mintty. I'm running cygwin version >> 1.7.9 on a Windows XP (64 bit machine). Included is the >> output of cygcheck -svr. I've looked through your docs, >> mail archives, and Google, but not found a solution. > > Works fine for me under the same conditions (although I'm using > W7 and I only tried with mintty). What does 'cygcheck screen' > tell you? What else Cygwin is running at the time? 'cygcheck screen' gives the following: [jschenck AT wxp][~] cygcheck screen Found: C:\cygwin\bin\screen.exe C:\cygwin\bin\screen.exe C:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypt-0.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses-10.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll And nothing else is running: [jschenck AT wxp][~] ps PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND 4788 1 4788 4788 con 0 15:24:55 /usr/bin/rxvt 1852 4788 1852 4924 0 0 15:24:55 /usr/bin/bash 2668 1852 2668 2740 0 0 15:26:10 /usr/bin/ps Thanks, Jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple