Hi Eric, > I can't figure out how to see console messages while I'm using X (I'musing > Gnome, if it matters). I do recall that it was straightforward on earlier > releases of Debian, but I can't recall how it was done.
> Now if I start xconsole after logging in, it displays an error "Can't > open console". I tried putting `xconsole &' at the end of > /etc/gdm/Init/Default, but that only displayed a blank console while > the login: prompt was visible. > >I imagine I'm missing something obvious ... any ideas? It seems to be that the permissions of the /dev/xconsole have been changed in potato. In slink the permissions are prw-r--r-- 1 root root 4084 Jun 8 07:50 /dev/xconsole In potato they are prw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Jun 8 17:29 /dev/xconsole So it's your choice: Either get member of the adm group: su root addgroup <your_login_name> adm or change the permissions of /dev/xconsole: su root chmod o+r /dev/xconsole That's it. Frank -- Frank Mehnert ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ##
