[Bug 367318] Re: in VT, screen not being saved (vcsa permission problem to blame)

[Shentino]

I'd bet my bottom dollar that a permissions problem that causes
cons.saver to be unable to access /dev/vcsa* is specific to ubuntu.  It
worked flawlessly on the last version of Fedora I used, because in
Fedora, when you log in on /dev/ttyX, you are automatically granted the
appropriate permissions on /dev/vcs(a|)X, so in Fedora, cons.saver
doesn't need to be set-id anything to do its job.

I suppose that when Karmic comes out I'll request a free CD and then
install that.  I'll touch base here again once I've tested the new
ubuntu release.

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in VT, screen not being saved (vcsa permission problem to blame)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367318
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