Wheezy gets rid of xconsole and /var/log/syslog

[amber gilchrist]

Hey everyone, I have been using the Debian OS for a while, love it, but am having a bit of trouble going from Squeeze to Wheezy. Looks like /dev/xconsole is missing now!

I always have the xconsole program running in my X windows. But now when I start up my X, the xconsole program just has this inside it: "Couldn't open /dev/xconsole"

Also, I do a search for /dev/xconsole and it isn't there!

I googled a way to create that file, but that didn't seem to help. And it disappeared after I rebooted!

I am also noticing that the log files aren't logging anything anymore. Most of the stuff in /var/log haven't been touched since my upgrade, like /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog.

The other strange part of this is that the rsyslog package isn't on my system anymore, and when I tried to install it, I got this warning:

initscripts breaks rsyslog (<< 5.8.2-2)

So I didn't install it, but I would really like to have some logs ... and an xconsole!

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Amber

[Andrei POPESCU]

On Lu, 17 iun 13, 09:42:29, amber gilchrist wrote:
> The other strange part of this is that the rsyslog package isn't on my
> system anymore, and when I tried to install it, I got this warning:
> initscripts breaks rsyslog (<< 5.8.2-2)

This doesn't sound right, wheezy has 5.8.11-3. Please post the output of

apt-cache policy
apt-cache policy initscripts
apt-cache policy rsyslog

Kind regards,
Andrei
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[Max Montauk]

amber gilchrist <amberluvsit <at> live.com> writes:

> Hey everyone, I have been using the Debian OS for a while, love it, but am
having a bit of trouble going from Squeeze to Wheezy. Looks like
/dev/xconsole is missing now!

> I am also noticing that the log files aren't logging anything anymore.
Most of the stuff in /var/log haven't been touched since my upgrade, like
/var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog.

After updating from squeeze to wheezy I had yesterday just the same problem.
Fortunately, the installation of rsyslog (5.8.11-3, i386) worked. Now,
/dev/xconsole and the logging in /var/log/ are available again. Thanks for
the hint.



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