Re: xconsole broken in recent 4.3-RC?

[John Polstra]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eriya Akasaka  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> /etc/fbtab ?
> 
> >>>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>   On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 18:49:54 -0700 (PDT)
>   "xconsole broken in recent 4.3-RC?"
>   John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrotes:
> 
> jdp> I've just noticed that xconsole no longer works under 4.3-RC from
> jdp> March 24.

Yep -- thanks, that was it.  I must have clobbered it when I ran
mergemaster.

John

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Re: xconsole broken in recent 4.3-RC?

[Eriya Akasaka]

>>>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 11:06:33 +0900
    "Re: xconsole broken in recent 4.3-RC?" $B$K$F(B
Eriya Akasaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $B$5$s$O6D$j$^$7$?(B:

> /etc/fbtab ?

Sorry.

I've 4.3-RC builedd Apr 1.
And xconsole worked fine.
My /etc/fbtab and /dev/console is followings.

/dev/ttyv0  0600/dev/console
/dev/ttyv1  0600/dev/console
/dev/ttyv2  0600/dev/console
/dev/ttyv3  0600/dev/console
/dev/ttyv4  0600/dev/console
/dev/ttyv5  0600/dev/console
/dev/ttyv6  0600/dev/console
/dev/ttyv7  0600/dev/console

In X is down.
crw---  1 root  wheel0,   0   4/ 3 10:52 /dev/console

In X is up.
crw---  1 eakasaka  eakasaka0,   0   4/ 3 09:06 /dev/console

--Eriya Akasaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>>>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
      On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 18:49:54 -0700 (PDT)
  "xconsole broken in recent 4.3-RC?"
  John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrotes:

jdp> March 24.  The window appears but contains only "Couldn't open
jdp> console".  I am in group wheel and /dev/console looks like this:
jdp> 
jdp> crw-rw  1 root  wheel0,   0 Apr  2 18:46 /dev/console
jdp> 
jdp> I have "options UCONSOLE" in my kernel, for whatever that's worth.
jdp> Running it under ktrace doesn't shed any light on the problem.
jdp> 
jdp> Is anybody else experiencing this?  I might have fouled up my
jdp> mergemaster run, but if so I don't know how.
jdp> 
jdp> John
jdp> --
jdp>   John Polstra   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jdp>   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.Seattle, Washington USA
jdp>   "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Ch.ANvgyam Trungpa

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Re: xconsole broken in recent 4.3-RC?

[Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Radcliffe writes:
> Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably
>  said:
> > GiveConsole should contain:
> > chown root /dev/console
> 
> Errrm, are you sure that's what you meant ?
> 
> xconsole checks if /dev/console belongs to to the user running it,
> last I checked, so you need;
> 
> chown $USER /dev/console

You are correct.  My machines at work are configured as in your 
example.  One of my machines at home is misconfigured.


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