TTY behaving strangely after yesterday update
Howdy, I use the fenrir screen reader, and after updating yesterday, it will no longer work in the console. I have tested it in a PTY, and it works fine there, so it's not a change in the screen reader itself. Also, it is the same version that was being used before the update. Also, interestingly, screen gives an error when I launch it now. It did not used to do this, but it flashes up an error that I can't review because it's gone as quickly as it appears. I probably wouldn't have noticed it at all if it wasn't for speakup reading the error. So I'm probably not spelling this exactly, but it sounds like it is saying: /home/storm/.screenrc expected character, x, or ioctl 38 The interesting part from the Fenrir log is, there are quite a few of these errors: ERROR 2023-02-16 06:55:48.420559: VCSA:updateWatchdog:[Errno 6] No such device or address I have checked and all the /dev/vcs stuff is there. It even seems to have the correct permissions and ownership. Here is a sample: crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 1 Feb 15 18:30 /dev/vcs1 Does anyone have any idea what may be going on with this? Oh, and I'm using Linux-lts: linux-lts 5.15.94-1 Thanks, Storm
Try moving .screenrc to .screenrc.bak. It could just be a corrupted config
file.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 11:16 AM Storm Dragon
Howdy,
I use the fenrir screen reader, and after updating yesterday, it will no longer work in the console. I have tested it in a PTY, and it works fine there, so it's not a change in the screen reader itself. Also, it is the same version that was being used before the update.
Also, interestingly, screen gives an error when I launch it now. It did not used to do this, but it flashes up an error that I can't review because it's gone as quickly as it appears. I probably wouldn't have noticed it at all if it wasn't for speakup reading the error. So I'm probably not spelling this exactly, but it sounds like it is saying:
/home/storm/.screenrc expected character, x, or ioctl 38
The interesting part from the Fenrir log is, there are quite a few of these errors:
ERROR 2023-02-16 06:55:48.420559: VCSA:updateWatchdog:[Errno 6] No such device or address
I have checked and all the /dev/vcs stuff is there. It even seems to have the correct permissions and ownership. Here is a sample:
crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 1 Feb 15 18:30 /dev/vcs1
Does anyone have any idea what may be going on with this? Oh, and I'm using Linux-lts:
linux-lts 5.15.94-1
Thanks, Storm
-- Sincerely, Matthew Blankenbehler
Howdy Matthew, Thank you for your reply. The .screenrc file is the same one I have had for over 10 years with no problems before now. I only mentioned it because it is the only other weird thing to happen in conjunction with the Fenrir problem. Screen, however, still does work. Thanks, Storm
Hi Storm,
Also, interestingly, screen gives an error when I launch it now. It did not used to do this, but it flashes up an error that I can't review because it's gone as quickly as it appears.
screen(1) details a ‘lastmsg’ command, e.g. ‘Ctrl-A : lastmsg’, though it may be the last message isn't the interesting one which has disappeared.
I have checked and all the /dev/vcs stuff is there. It even seems to have the correct permissions and ownership. Here is a sample:
crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 1 Feb 15 18:30 /dev/vcs1
Does something simple like this work on a VT? tty sudo cat /dev/vcs1 with ‘1’ replaced as appropriate. -- Cheers, Ralph.
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Matthew Blankenbeheler
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Ralph Corderoy
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Storm Dragon