[lubuntu-users] Where have all the Bash Shells gone???

[Fritz Hudnut]

Chris G:

Thanks for the reply, well, I noticed this problem across two Macs, and
multiple linux hard metal installs . . . .  I do have a "persistent live"
usb flash drive of Lu 19.10 . . . maybe I'll try to boot that and see if
the tty works there . . . but seemingly on the full installs it just not
like it was . . . .

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 6:41 PM Chris Guiver <guiverc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did some QA-testing using the 2019-09-12 daily image of 19.10 and
> didn't notice any issues with virtual terminals
> (
> http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/404/builds/199233/testcases/1303/results/
> ).
>
> I used in testing
> - dell [optiplex] 780 (c2q-q9400, 8gb, amd/ati cedar radeon hd
> 5000/6000/7350/8350)
> - hp 8200 elite sff (i5-2400, 8gb, nvidia quadro 600)
>
> and just booted the same 2019-09-12 image on
> - dell [optiplex] 755 (c2d-e6850, 5gb, amd/ati radeon rv516/x1300/x1550)
> - lenovo thinkpad x201 (i5-m520, 4gb, i915)
> and get virtual terminals.  As I use ctrl+alt+f4 & ctrl+alt+f5 mostly
> (I find them easier to find with my fingers without looking)  these
> would be all I test before switching back to gui.
>
> I don't have an intel/amd based mac - but I don't see the issue an
> anything I've tested on, nor can I recall noticing it before.
>
> Chris g.
>
> On 9/14/19, Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was trying to help a buddy get some form of ubuntu to boot up on his
> > iMac, so then I was looking over the ubuntu apple hardware users
> sub-forum
> > and saw a couple of posts about problems getting ubuntu installed on
> Macs,
> > and I was going to suggest to one poster to "try to get to a tty" . . .
> so
> > I tried myself, at that time I was running a Leap 15.1 system . . .
> screen
> > went black, but no login prompt showed up out of the blacknesses . . .
> did
> > manage to get back to the GUI in that system.
> >
> > Then today I tried a number of my systems, debian, u-mate, Lu 19.10,
> Gecko
> > . . . and it seems like the tty Bash shells have gone extinct???  In Lu
> the
> > screen went black, then the display light went orange . . . and would not
> > return to the GUI no matter what keys I tried???
> >
> > What's up wit dat???  Being able to get to a Bash Shell is one of the
> > handier things about running linux for troubleshooting and so forth.  I
> saw
> > a thread from last year on an OpenSUSE forum thread from Dec '18 where
> one
> > poster said, "they broke the tty" and then another admin saying, "Why did
> > you say 'they' . . .???" but then didn't seem to discuss it anymore.  I
> > know I have dropped into a Bash shell on one of my many systems pretty
> > recently . . . but now it seems like . . . it ain't happnin' ????
> >
> > F
> >
>
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