I agree that a more helpful error message would be helpful here. I am an experience Ubuntu terminal user. However, it is not intuitive to me that showkey should require root privileges. I would not have guessed this as a solution to resolve this error.
A new error message could take several forms: Current user cannot access a file descriptor referring to the console. Permission denied. You must run as root user. Are you root? I personally prefer the most descriptive and helpful: Current user cannot access a file descriptor referring to the console. Perhaps you intended to run this as root? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006676 Title: showkey fails with "Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kbd/+bug/1006676/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
