Re: TTY behaving strangely after yesterday update

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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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