xconsole couldn't open console
After an apt-get upgrade (using potato) attempts to open xconsole show the above error. I can't pinpoint the exact time of the problem because with Linux I went weeks between boots, and it's started by my .Xsession. I tried looking up the problem in the Debian-User archives, but unfortunately the search engine on www.debian.org is still broken. I've played with permissions on xconsole.real (currently root.root), but every attempt to start the program still gives the above error. Is there a console-mode equivalent of xconsole? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Guest of Honor in 2000 will be Geoffrey A. Landis. See http://www.iconsf.org for I-Con information.
Re: xconsole couldn't open console
Some what recently, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about xconsole couldn't open console :) After an apt-get upgrade (using potato) attempts to open xconsole :) show the above error. I can't pinpoint the exact time of the problem :) because with Linux I went weeks between boots, and it's started by my :) .Xsession. :) :) I tried looking up the problem in the Debian-User archives, but :) unfortunately the search engine on www.debian.org is still broken. :) :) I've played with permissions on xconsole.real (currently root.root), :) but every attempt to start the program still gives the above error. :) :) Is there a console-mode equivalent of xconsole? :) :) Thanks in advance for any help. I think in potato the permisson for /dev/xconsole which is read by xconsole by xconsole -file /dev/xconsole is root.adm, make sure that you are in adm group. Chanop -- ,-. | Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Australian National University | | got sparetime ? | | http://kenji.anu.edu.au/| | Debian GNU/Hurd GPG | `-'
xconsole: Couldn't open console
Can someone tell me why xconsole called without the '-file' option isn't able to read /dev/console? I have /dev/console world readable: crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4, 0 Apr 6 18:58 /dev/console Yet it says it isn't able to open console. On the other hand, xconsole -file /dev/console works... I know I can use /dev/xconsole, and that works as well since you specifically have to specify the -file option. This is an issue of compatibility across different machine types and I'd like xconsole to be able to read from /dev/console without having to specify the file. Clues, anyone? -- Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor ---
