From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 26 2:18:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A16014C83 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 02:18:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 848 invoked from network); 26 Sep 1999 09:18:48 -0000 Received: from usercb06.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.150.173) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 1999 09:18:48 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id KAA04864; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 10:10:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 10:10:15 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: David May Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q] User remote X user cannot take console via xconsole. Message-ID: <19990926101015.C4686@marder-1> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 01:11:02PM +0800, David May wrote: > > I just went through a very painful upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.2 and one of > the problems I have found is that xconsole no longer works from my > remote X sessions. It used to work under FreeBSD 2.2.8. Xconsole > works when the X server is running on the console e.g. ttyv3. But I > always run X Windows using VNC from my PC, which works except that the > xconsole window always contains the message "Couldn't open console." I > do not think this is a permissions problem as I have tried setting those > manually. I.e. : > > (david@tandoori)$ls -l /dev/console > crw--w--w- 1 david wheel 0, 0 Sep 21 18:07 /dev/console > > Neither does it appear to be a kernel configuration problem. I.e. : > > (david@tandoori)$strings /kernel |grep UCONSOLE > ___options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console > > What am I doing wrong here? Does anyone know how to fix this or is it a > known bug? Any assistance would be appreciated. > Add or un-comment the following line in /etc/fbtab: /dev/ttyv0 0600 /dev/console > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message