I am running Debian Linux 2.2r6.
When I try to open an xconsole from the menu, it opens up with the message:
Couldn't open xconsole
With help from linux newsgroups, I did the following:
As root:
rm /dev/xconsole
mknod -m 666 /dev/xconsole p
As user:
xconsole -file /dev/xconsole 21
kill -SIGHUP
I am running Debian Linux 2.2r6.
When I try to open an xconsole from the menu, it opens up with the message:
Couldn't open xconsole
With help from linux newsgroups, I did the following:
As root:
rm /dev/xconsole
mknod -m 666 /dev/xconsole p
As user:
xconsole -file /dev/xconsole 21
kill
On 20/11/99 Brian Servis wrote:
I fixed it by adding my user to the adm group. I don't know the
reasononing behind having xconsole as group adm though. It is the
only device in /dev with that group ownership. Remember that passwords
and other private info can be put on the logs so don't make
Hi, all,
I run xdm on my computer but every time I login, xconsole always
responses can not open console. How to solve this??
Thanks.
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Chia-Sheng Chang
Institute of Communications Engineering
College of Electrical Engineering
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan 10617
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*- On 20 Nov, Chia-Sheng Chang wrote about xconsole problem
Hi, all,
I run xdm on my computer but every time I login, xconsole always
responses can not open console. How to solve this??
% ls -l /dev/xconsole
0 prw-r-1 root adm 0 Nov 20 08:30 /dev/xconsole
Still cannot seem to get xconsole to work properly. Appreciate any
suggestions anyone can offer.
I use xdm, which gives the usual login screen. There is also
usually a blank window at the lower right side of the screen on
the xdm login screen. This is not normal, I don't think.
When I
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
Still cannot seem to get xconsole to work properly. Appreciate any
suggestions anyone can offer.
I use xdm, which gives the usual login screen. There is also
usually a blank window at the lower right side of the screen on
the xdm login screen.
Nathan == Nathan L Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nathan When I run 'xconsole' as a non-root user, I get the
Nathan following message (inside the xconsole window):
[...]
Nathan Anybody have any idea what to do with this conundrum?
Hello!
I'm hoping somebody can help me with a problem I'm having with
xconsole. I'm running a Debian 1.1 system and have recently upgraded
to XFree86 3.2, but I was having the exact same problem before as
well.
When I run 'xconsole' as a non-root user, I get the following message
(inside the
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