chvt fails if run from acpid event handlers - and external scripts can't be called (why?)

From: Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo_yahoo_addressguard-gmane_at_yahoo.it)
Date: 06/30/05

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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:00:19 +0200

    Hi all, I have a bug which I can't trace back, but it happens that kwin
    starts using 99% of my cpu power, and I have to kill and restart it. The
    only thing that works is the power down button.

    So I first thought to write a script that kills kwin and restarts it. But I
    can't seem to be able to call an external script from an acpid handler -
    might this be due to selinux or something? - it says "permission denied".

    I tried to simply put "chvt 1" in the event handler but it says "Couldnt get
    a file descriptor referring to the console" and I really am upset :) I can
    shutdown the machine but I can't switch my foreground console.

    Can someone please give an hint?

    Bye

    Vincenzo 

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