Bug 157471

Summary:	xconsole "Can't open console"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nigel Horne <njh>
Component:	xorg-x11	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	4	CC:	goswin.visschers, xgl-maint
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Description Nigel Horne 2005-05-11 21:02:00 UTC

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Description of problem:
xconsole always says "Couldn't open console" even if you start it as root!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.13

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  xconsole&
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  Couldn't open console

Expected Results:  See "man xconsole" for expected results

Additional info:

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2005-05-16 17:57:26 UTC

Reassigning to correct component "xorg-x11".  XFree86 is not part of
Fedora Core anymore since FC2.

Comment 3 Richard Harman 2005-06-16 17:23:27 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Reassigning to correct component "xorg-x11".  XFree86 is not part of
> Fedora Core anymore since FC2.

I have the same problem, in RHEL4 -- the console messages show up on the virtual
console, *under* the running X server.  If you cat /dev/vcs7, or kill X, you can
see the console messages.

Comment 4 Rahul Sundaram 2005-06-30 13:01:24 UTC

(in replay to 

"I have the same problem, in RHEL4 -- the console messages show up on the virtual
console, *under* the running X server.  If you cat /dev/vcs7, or kill X, you can
see the console messages."(In reply to comment #3)

For RHEL4 I would suggest working through support
(https://www.redhat.com/apps/support/) to get the problem resolved.

Comment 5 Goswin 2005-07-13 10:49:24 UTC

If I do an strace xconsole on RHEL 4 I see that I tries to open one of the 
vertual terminals /dev/ptyp<N>, If I do the same on RHEL 3 I see that it 
opens /dev/console, /dev/ptyp0 and /dev/ttyp0. The last to devices don't exist 
on RHEL 4.

Comment 7 Mike A. Harris 2006-01-17 09:00:06 UTC

Fedora Core 3 has been transferred to the Fedora Legacy project currently,
however UNIX 98 pty support has been backported from Xorg CVS for a future
RHEL4 update.  The same patch is being considered also for possible
inclusion in a future Fedora Core 4 update.  While we no longer provide
updates for FC3, the same patch could be utilized by the Fedora Legacy
project for future X updates as well.

The issue is also resolved in the latest xorg-x11 which is currently in
rawhide (X11R7).

I'm changing the product version to Fedora Core 4 for this issue, to track
it for future consideration for FC4.