Missing virtual terminals
ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
zamb at saudi.net.sa
Sun Aug 7 10:57:22 UTC 2005
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.
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