From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 1 10:51:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA16940 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:51:22 -0800 Received: from gandalf.me.ksu.edu (joed@gandalf.me.ksu.edu [129.130.41.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA16931 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:51:20 -0800 Received: (from joed@localhost) by gandalf.me.ksu.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id MAA02012 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 12:50:48 -0600 From: Joe Diehl Message-Id: <199512011850.MAA02012@gandalf.me.ksu.edu> Subject: re: xconsole problems To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 12:50:47 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1079 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk There have been a couple of question posted resently regarding problems with xconsole not being able to open the console... Regretfully, I no longer have the orginal messages anywhere, so I am unable to simply reply to it... I also had this problem, but located the problem in my .xsession file... My problem was that I was loading an xterm with a switch to capture console messages ('xterm -C'). As soon as I removed the '-C' switch, xconsole was able to run just fine. Check your .xsession (or .xinitrc, as the case may be) for any programs besides xconsole who wants the console messages. BTW- As a side note, I also had to add 'chown root /dev/console' to my rc file... I would login as standard user (causing /dev/console to be owned by that user), suing to root, and rebooting. When XDM came up, after the reboot, I had no keyboard (I waited about 5 days once)... The cause was that root didn't own /dev/console. I am running a brand new install of FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE... --- Joe Diehl Engineering Computing Center Kansas State University