Re: screen broken on Slackware-current?

Earlier I wrote:

> 
> Dear All,
>      I am running Slackware-current (32-bit) and have not been able to run
> screen (the screen manager program) for some time now.  It fails with
> 
> $ screen
> Bad tty '/dev/pts/0'

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My thanks to all who followed-up and replied by email.  It turned out
my problem was caused by libsafe, whose package I had installed, having
upgraded from a series of older Slackware versions.  Removing it fixed
the problem with the realpath() call and screen now works.

Checking on the older versions of Slackware on ftp.slackware.com
showed libsafe was in the extra directory from Slackware 8.1 to 12.2.
At version 13.0 it had been moved to the pasture directory with the
following caveats in ChangeLog.txt,

> pasture/libsafe-2.0-16/libsafe-2.0.16-i386-1.txz:  Moved from /extra.
> This causes problems with firefox-3.5, and too many people are going to
> be confused by that if libsafe remains in /extra.  Really, there's very
> little reason to be running libsafe on a machine that isn't a server
> anyway.  In any case, libsafe has always caused a few programs to fail
> for as long as I can remember.  I'm not sure how much good it still does
> either, considering it's been unmaintained upstream since 2001.
> Feel free to continue using it if you like, but realize that it has the
> potential to break things, especially on desktop machines.
                
The package had been removed in Slackware 14.0.

Regards
Tom Crane

Ps. Also posted to alt.os.linux.slackware
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