Re: xconsole "couldn't open console"
Some what recently, Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com>
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 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 search engine on www.debian.org is still broken.
>:)
>:) I've played with permissions on xconsole.real (currently root.root),
>:) but every attempt to start the program still gives the above error.
>:)
>:) Is there a console-mode equivalent of xconsole?
>:)
>:) Thanks in advance for any help.
I think in potato the permisson for /dev/xconsole which is read by xconsole by
xconsole -file /dev/xconsole is root.adm, make sure that you are in adm group.
Chanop
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