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 wi

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

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