One thing that has bitten me a couple of times is that I have tried to use
run_init when I had not mounted /dev/pts. run_init gives an error message
about "Fork:" which doesn't help anyone in tracking down the problem (it
seems much more likely to have a /dev/pts problem than an actual fork
problem).
The misleading error message is currently in Debian and a quick scan of the
source code in rawhide suggests that Fedora has it too.
I suggest the following change, but something more verbose could be useful
too.
--- open_init_pty.c.bak 2009-02-16 21:47:28.000000000 +1100
+++ open_init_pty.c 2009-02-16 21:48:06.000000000 +1100
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
}
if (child_pid < 0) {
- perror("Fork:");
+ perror("forkpty():");
fflush(stdout);
fflush(stderr);
exit(EX_OSERR);
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