[Bug 367318] Re: in VT, screen not being saved (vcsa permission problem to blame)

[Shentino]

I'm sorry to have been rude if I was, but I'm not an ubuntu developer so
I really don't know squat about packaging and whatnot.  I do, however,
have common sense as well as a knack for experimentation.

Cons.saver makes use of vcsa device to do its job, and if it lacks perms
it fails to do the C-o magic screen flip.

Empirical evidence obtained by experimentation solidly confirms this as
the cause of the problem, both on ubuntu and on gentoo.  Flipping-
flopping cons.saver from rwxr-xr-x root root to rwxr-sr-x root tty and
back again reliably supresses and restores the errant behavior.

Upstream fixes are almost certainly useless for resolving this bug, as
device permissions are ostensibly the responsibility of downstream
administrators, with sane defaults probably provided by the distros
making use of the mc package.

Which would indicate that the appropriate level to have this thing fixed
would be by an ubuntu-specific tweak to the perms of cons.saver on
installation of mc.

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in VT, screen not being saved (vcsa permission problem to blame)
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