This question bothers me lately, and it was brought up on debian-user few times. Yet, although I am trying to constantly update the packages I am using it seems that no package takes care for it. Further more, I believe that it will be raised more frequently once potato will become the current debian release (stable).
The problem is, as you can see from the subject, the new /dev/console device. It seems that with slink there used to be a link /dev/console -> tty0. However series 2.2 kernels probably have some other mechanism and a new /dev/console device. Therefor, I think debian should: 1) Verify that the above assertion is true. 2) Decide what current users (slink users) should do. Is it simply a matter of rm slink /dev/console and MAKEDEV the new /dev/console and that is all? What will be the consequences of doing these rm and MAKEDEDV on a running system? 3) Decide about the package that should take care of that. It seems to me that with my current situation (having slink /dev/console and 2.2.14 kernel) the only consequence is that I am getting "Couldn't open console" when I issue xconsole & from an xterm prompt. It might also be that this is the reason for not having an xconsole open automatically when I am logging in with xdm but I am not sure of that. I hope I managed to write meaningful posting.
