Console switching

Tristan Wibberley maihem at maihem.org
Sat Apr 1 21:22:58 BST 2006


Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 14:40 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
>> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 20:27 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
>>> Lee Revell wrote:
>>>
>>>> What could be the problem?  How can I debug this further?
>>> Does `chvt 1` do anything?
>>>
>> $ chvt 1
>> Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
> 
> It's a permissions problem - chvt works perfectly as root.

That's normal, does Alt-Fn work once you've got to a getty?

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Tristan Wibberley




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