I'm a fairly satisfied Debian 2.1 user. I recently installed the open_1.40-10_i386.deb package in order to be able to run commands on other VCs without having to log on to them first, and possible to put it in init as outlined in various places (so that you can spawn a new VC with alt-up etc.) My problem is: it plain doesn't work! The new console pops up, but the new console does not accept any input, nor is there any output.
If I do a ps af, I get: 2585 2 S 0:01 -bash 2879 2 R 0:00 \_ ps af 2868 8 S 0:00 /bin/bash (various garbage deleted.) The VC which pops up is no. 8, and there does appear to be a bash connected to it. What's up? Another problem (although vastly less annoying) that I have had is X related - when I close X (I use startx,) I am left with an "empty" VC. My intution tells me that these might be related, though I wouldn't know. Does anyone have a clue about what's going on? -- Big Gaute "Ferjestrekninger er i de fleste tilfelle et tegn på at det bor folk på steder der det ikke burde bodd folk. Urbanisering er som i alle andre tilfeller løsningen på problemet." Geir Hogro i no.prat.politikk, 1999