Missing virtual terminals

Daniel Robitaille robitaille at imapmail.org
Sun Aug 7 17:16:32 UTC 2005


On Sun, 07 Aug 2005, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> 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".

I also very recently lost access to the virtual terminals in Breezy;
obviously one of the recent package upgrade made them to stop. This is
what I have in my /etc/inittab file, the same than on my hoary system:


# 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
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6



-- 
Daniel Robitaille





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