>Number:         15594
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       problems with the new /dev/ttypX entries
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 12 22:56:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Martti Kuparinen
>Release:        NetBSD 1.5ZA
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:

I have a fresh installation of 1.5ZA (make release from last week)
which I upgraded yesterday (build.sh, kernel, etcupdate, MAKEDEV).

It seems like the new /dev/ttypX device nodes are not working with
certain commands like w, who and last, i.e. either the {u,w}tmp
records are not updated or the utilities don't work correctly.

Here's a short capture of the session:

localhost:~> ssh 10.0.0.254
NetBSD 1.5ZA (FW) #0: Tue Feb 12 19:06:47 EET 2002

Welcome to NetBSD!

Terminal type is xterm.                                                 

 7:00AM  0 users, load averages: 0.85, 0.21, 0.07

fw:~> who
fw:~> 
fw:~> w
 7:02AM  up 3 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.28, 0.19, 0.09
USER TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
fw:~> 
fw:~> ps axw | grep sshd:
284 ?? S    0:00.55 sshd: martti@ttypg 
fw:~> 
fw:~> uname -a
NetBSD fw 1.5ZA NetBSD 1.5ZA (FW) #0: Tue Feb 12 19:06:47 EET 2002     root@fw:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/FW i386
fw:~> 
fw:~> ls -l `which w`
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  11984 Feb 12 23:32 /usr/bin/w

And here's the partitial directory listing from /dev:

crw-rw-rw-  1 root    wheel  5,  14 Feb 11 19:02 ttype
crw-rw-rw-  1 root    wheel  5,  15 Feb 11 19:02 ttypf
crw--w----  1 martti  tty    5, 256 Feb 13 07:02 ttypg
crw-rw-rw-  1 root    wheel  5, 257 Feb 11 19:02 ttyph
crw-rw-rw-  1 root    wheel  5, 258 Feb 11 19:02 ttypi
crw-rw-rw-  1 root    wheel  5, 259 Feb 11 19:02 ttypj

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

I haven't investigated this yet.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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