From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 21 3:54:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from styx.uwa.edu.au (styx.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB66151E3 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 03:54:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mayd@cygnus.uwa.edu.au) Received: from cygnus.uwa.edu.au (mayd@cygnusl.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.5]) by styx.uwa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id SAA07294 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:54:12 +0800 Received: from localhost (mayd@localhost) by cygnus.uwa.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA29470 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:54:08 +0800 (WST) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:54:08 +0800 (WST) From: David May To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [Q] User remote X user cannot take console via xconsole. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message