RE: error on TTY read: no such file or directory

[Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>]

To all - PLEASE, indicate at least

- your Zsh version
- your operating system
- for Linux - distribution, and/or glibc version. Most people tend to
name kernel version but it hardly matters (in most cases).
- anything else you deem approrpiate

 
> this is very strange.
> 
> i login to the host in question as root from a tty device. lala,
regular
> login stuff, zshrc, ps1, etc. then, if i try to type something,
> anything, i get
> 
> zsh: error on TTY read: no such file or directory
> 
> then it logs me out. note that i am not actually typing a full command
> and hitting enter, i get the error after typing only one letter.
> 
> if i connect to the host via ssh or telnet, everything is fine. if i
> login from a tty using a different shell (ie, bash or ash), everything
> is fine. if i login from a tty with another account that uses zsh,
> everything is fine.
> 

I had similar problem under Mandrake cooker with specific version of
util-linux. The way login tried to "free" controlling terminal resulted
in process having *no* controlling terminal. Ash did not care, bash
tried to explicitly reopen stdin, zsh had problems. It looked different,
but may be it is attributed to different zsh version (I do not remember
what version I had at this time).

Please, login on other console and check zsh processes if they have
controlling tty. 


-andrej