Problems with subshell

[Meino Christian Cramer]

Hi,

 I compiled the recent snapshot of mc (mc-2004-03-05-08.tar.gz).

 Pressing CTRL-O puts me "behind" the panels, but as soon as I am
 pressing any key I will be put back to the panels.

 mc put a warning on the screen:

     "Cannot open master side of pty: No such file or directory (2)"

 I used strace to find the problem and found:

     open("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

 but a 'ls -l /dev/pt*' gives my:

 crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 5, 2 Jan  1  1970 /dev/ptmx  <<< !!!!
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptya0 -> pty/m176
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptya1 -> pty/m177
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptya2 -> pty/m178
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptya3 -> pty/m179
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptya4 -> pty/m180
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptya5 -> pty/m181
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptya6 -> pty/m182
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptya7 -> pty/m183
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptya8 -> pty/m184
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptya9 -> pty/m185
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptyaa -> pty/m186
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptyab -> pty/m187
 lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root    8 Mar 15  2004 /dev/ptyac -> pty/m188
 (and so on)

 I compiled mc with:

 #!/bin/bash
 unset CFLAGS
 unset CXXFLAGS
 ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-nls --without-gnome --without-ncurses \
 --with-slang --with-subshell --with-netrc \
 --with-tm-x-support && make && sudo make install

 I tried a "blank" ./configure without any options, which results in
 the same problem.

 I tried to set TERM to rxvt and xterm with no success.

 What did I wrong? 

 My system looks like:

    - used system, software: -
  Linux 2.6.4 using devfsd/devfs
  alsa-1.0.3
  gcc 3.3.3.
  glibc 2.3.2.
  binutils 2.14.0 (ftp.gnu.org)
  gdb 6.0
  XFree 4.4.0 (hardware dri/drm enabled and working)
  IceWM 1.2.14pre9
  Turboprint 1.87
  Gimp 1.2.5
  Gimp-print 4.3.25
  

 - used system, hardware: -
  ATI Radeon 7500 AGP made by Sapphire
  Iiyama HM903DT A
  Athlon XP 2400+
  EPoX 8K5A3+
  256 MB DDR RAM
  Canon i865


 Thank you very much for any help or hint in advance!  :O)

 Kind regards,
 Meino