re: disk utilities & permissions

[huffpuff]

On a new build of tc and decided to install the gnome disk utility but as in a previous build where I had added the gvfs extension I found my vte-based terminals stopped working.

Terminator responded with 'failed to create pseudo-tty' whilst Sakura's cursors froze and no input was possible. When the terminals were run with sudo they worked fine. When I removed the gnome-disk-utility extension from the onboot list the problem went away.

I am guessing that this disk utility may have security measures that have somehow stopped my terminals working aimed at non-sudo use - from my googling it definitely seems to be a permissions thing perhaps connected with glibc...

At any rate it seems like a possible bug in this package rather than with my setup...

[huffpuff]

Oh and also..

The native terminal [xterm] works so the fact that terminator and sakura are gtk apps seeking shell access may be significant. And since the gnome disk utility is a PAM app I suspect that Linux-PAM is installed as a dependency and that this is the cause of my non-working terminals.

If this is not a bug then perhaps a tweak of PAM might get my terminals working again and I get to keep the icing on my cake.

Any suggestions?

I imagine others will encounter this problem too.