Missing virtual terminals

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:44 +0530, Ankur Jain wrote:
> I am suffering the same problem on hoary. But did you check if the
> problem persists at the other runlevels? I booted my system at
> runlevel 3, and I did get the virtual terminals at that runlevell; but
> cannot resolve the issue at the default runlevel[2].
> 
> My PC is 2 years old; and I could use virtual terminals till last
> week; but after arbitrary upgrade of some packages, I lost the virtual
> terminals.
> 
> Any Suggestions??
> 
> 
> Ankur Jain
> 
> 
Virtual Terminals are created as a result of the existence of these
lines in "/etc/inittab" (those are from my Hoary system.  Anything that
start with a "#" is a comment and is ignored):
        # /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels.
        #
        # The "id" field MUST be the same as the last
        # characters of the device (after "tty").
        #
        # Format:
        #  <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
        #
        # Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System,
        # so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X.
        #
        1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
        2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
        3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
        4:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
        5:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
        6:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

Make sure (both of you Stephen and Ankur) that these lines exist on your
copy of "/etc/inittab".

Ziyad.