Missing virtual terminals

Ankur Jain ankurj at gmail.com
Sun Aug 7 18:48:58 UTC 2005


Well I have got all these lines in my /etc/inittab; still I cannot
gain access to the virtual terminals. Probably it's got something to
do with some package recently upgraded.

On 8/7/05, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at imapmail.org> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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