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From: Rich Murphey <rich@lamprey.utmb.edu>
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To: sycheng@cis.ufl.edu
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Subject: Re: xconsole: Couldn't open console
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|From: sycheng@cis.ufl.edu
|
|
|  Hi :
|
|    Please forgive me if this is a stupid question. the "xconsole" on my
|  machine always generate "Couldn't open console" message. I do include the
|  "UCONSOLE" and "XSERVER" options but still got no luck. Could anyone tell
|  me why ? I am using the lastest current codes.

When you log in to the first console (ttyv0) the ownership
of /dev/console should change to your login id.  This is
configured by an entry in /etc/fbtab:

/dev/ttyv0	0600	/dev/ttyv0:/dev/console

Make sure that /dev/console is owned by you when you start
xconsole. Rich