Comment 5 for bug 367318

Another workaround: Install fp-compile to get the grab_vcsa

IMO still a bug. I think that mc should work "out of the box", including subshell screen save/restore. At the least, I'd consider it an unexpected annoyance that a regular end user (i.e., one who's not a geek) would be somewhat at a loss to diagnose, and manually mucking about with permissions in /dev definitely sounds heavyweight as far as workarounds go.