Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:32:18 GMT From: "J. Porter Clark" <jpc@drum.msfc.nasa.gov> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/74309: xterm -C and rxvt -C do not grab /dev/console Message-ID: <200411240132.iAO1WIlE006521@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200411240140.iAO1eHmj084748@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 74309
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: xterm -C and rxvt -C do not grab /dev/console
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Nov 24 01:40:17 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: J. Porter Clark
>Release: 5.3-STABLE
>Organization:
NASA MSFC
>Environment:
FreeBSD auricle.charter.net 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sat Nov 20 21:49:00 CST 2004 jpc@auricle.charter.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AURICLE5 i386
>Description:
xterm -C and rxvt -C fail to grab the console when started from inside X. I'm using Windowmaker. Changing the owner and mode of /dev/console to me and 0666 wasn't necessary in 4.X and doesn't help in 5.3. It looks as though the TIOCCONS ioctl was changed significantly between 4.10 and 5.3.
>How-To-Repeat:
Run xterm -C from inside a window manager. When the window pops up, it says:
xterm: cannot open console: Device busy
Occasionally, the error message does not show up, but in all cases, the new terminal is not connected to /dev/console.
>Fix:
None.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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