Bug 157471 - xconsole "Can't open console"
Summary: xconsole "Can't open console"
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-05-11 21:02 UTC by Nigel Horne
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-06-27 16:39:27 UTC
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Description Nigel Horne 2005-05-11 21:02:00 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3

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.



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