[oe] devshell not working with screen remote shell

[Marco Cavallini]

devshell is not working when you run bitbake in a screen remote ssh shell
(also potest here http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5084)


$ bitbake -cdevshell bluez-utils
NOTE: Handling BitBake files: - (6658/6658) [100 %]
NOTE: Parsing finished. 6398 cached, 0 parsed, 260 skipped, 0 masked.
NOTE: Cache is clean, not saving.
NOTE: build 200904192010: started

OE Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION        = "1.8.13"
METADATA_BRANCH   = "stable/2009"
METADATA_REVISION = "6ea387ca312c4686746c387b56735f7b96f599b3"
TARGET_ARCH       = "i586"
TARGET_OS         = "linux"
MACHINE           = "qemux86"
DISTRO            = "kaeilos"
DISTRO_VERSION    = "2008.1-test-20090419"

NOTE: oestats: build 140918
...snip...
NOTE: package bluez-utils-3.36-r5: task do_patch: completed
NOTE: Running task 32 of 32 (ID: 4,
/home/koan/devel/openembedded/recipes/bluez/bluez-utils_3.36.bb,
do_devshell)
NOTE: package bluez-utils-3.36-r5: task do_devshell: started
ERROR: function do_devshell failed
ERROR: log data follows
(/home/koan/devel/build/kaeilos/tmp/work/i586-kaeilos-linux/bluez-utils-3.36-r5/temp/log.do_devshell.5388)
| cannot open display:
| Run 'gnome-terminal --help' to see a full list of available command line
options.


I already tried to solve this time ago using different option in bitbake
code
(trying to activate xterm instead of the default x terminal) and trying
to set
DISPLAY and xauth in several ways without success.

/marco