Missing virtual terminals

John Nilsson john at milsson.nu
Sun Aug 7 21:00:12 UTC 2005


On mån, 2005-08-08 at 00:18 +0530, Ankur Jain wrote:
> 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.
> > 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

Did they change default runlevel? It looks like they changed it so that
getty will only be running on tty1 if runlvel > 3

'ps a | grep getty' will tell you which gettys are running...

Have they/you manage to sneak the following into xorg.conf?
Option "DontVTSwitch"  "true"

/John





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