odd question with /dev/tty

From: Tom Dymond (tom_at_kmem.org)
Date: 08/31/04

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    Hello group

    I've got a strange problem on this machine :

    FreeBSD bat.xxx.xxx.org 5.3-BETA2 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 #0: Mon Aug 30
    19:03:00 BST 2004 tom@xxx.xxx.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

    On this machine i installed a few jails, each jail has it's own root,
    procfs, devfs

    so the typical jail is like this :
    /dev/ad0s3f 4.8G 546M 3.9G 12% /usr/jails/j3
    procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /usr/jails/j3/proc
    devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /usr/jails/j3/dev

    I installed vncserver from ports along with xorg to give users a graphical
    workspace

    I installed blackbox windowmanager from ports

    I launch vncserver after modifying my xstartup script and it powers up
    blackbox with a xterm.
    but impossible to open another xterm from the blackbox menu...

    it doesn't do anything nor produce any output, so i look in the
    I first think of maybe the $PATH wasn't set correctly so i modified the
    menu so it uses the absolute path, but that didn't change anything
    and on the initial xterm, i did a quick echo $PATH which reported this :

    19:53|tom@bat:~/.vnc> echo $PATH
    /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/tom/bin

    19:57|tom@bat:~/.vnc> which xterm
    /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm

    So i checked the VNC log, and saw this

    cat $HOME/.vnc/`hostname`:1.log

    xterm: Error 14, errno 2: No such file or directory
    Reason: spawn: open() failed on /dev/tty
    xterm: Error 14, errno 2: No such file or directory
    Reason: spawn: open() failed on /dev/tty
    xterm: Error 14, errno 2: No such file or directory
    Reason: spawn: open() failed on /dev/tty
    xterm: Error 14, errno 2: No such file or directory
    Reason: spawn: open() failed on /dev/tty
    xterm: Error 14, errno 2: No such file or directory
    Reason: spawn: open() failed on /dev/tty

    Thanks in advance for *any* help on this.

    -tom
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