From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: GNU screen won't run; "chown tty: no such file or directory"
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF6B367.7070604@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110613052827.GA2512@chomsky.local>
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?
--
Larry
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-13 5:29 Jeff Schenck
2011-06-14 1:03 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
2011-06-18 6:24 Jeff Schenck
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