Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 12:50:47 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Diehl <joed@engg.ksu.edu> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: re: xconsole problems Message-ID: <199512011850.MAA02012@gandalf.me.ksu.edu>
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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 <joed@engg.ksu.edu> Engineering Computing Center Kansas State University
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