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