From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261580AbULYWSV (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:18:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261581AbULYWSV (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:18:21 -0500 Received: from smtp104.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.223]:28271 "HELO smtp104.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261580AbULYWSS (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:18:18 -0500 Message-ID: <41CDE70E.8090109@yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 14:17:50 -0800 From: Lars Organization: What? Organized?? User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041121 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.10 breaks xconsole Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Running kernel 2.6.10, xconsole always displays: Couldn't open console. xconsole works fine in the identical setup with 2.6.9 and 2.4.28. The permissions are set correctly: crw-rw-r-- 1 lars tty 5, 1 2004-12-25 13:17 /dev/console xconsole won't work when run as either lars, a tty member, and even root. In all cases the message above is shown. If I change permission to: crw-rw-r-- 1 root tty 5, 1 2004-12-25 13:17 /dev/console xconsole can at least be run as root. I guess this is related to this patch: [PATCH] TIOCCONS security Forcing xconsole to be run as root is not a good idea, IMHO. -- Lars ps. Please CC me directly as I'm not subscribed to the list.