Missing virtual terminals

[Derek Broughton]

Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Aug 2005, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
>> > 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"
>> > 
>> What exactly happens when you press "CTRL+ALT+F1" from within X?  Do you
>> switch to a blank screen or simply *nothing* happens (you are still
>> inside GNOME/KDE)?
> 
> in my case nothing happen.  I'm still inside Gnome (if I'm logged in), or
> at
> the gdm prompt if I'm not.  The ctrl+alt+fX keys are totally ignored.  And
> it used to work, until 1 or 2 weeks ago.

Same thing in KDE.  All the gettys are there.  There's no DontVTSwitch in
xorg.conf, but that would seem to be the place where the problem is.  If I
kill kdm from an SSH session, I can get to the consoles.
-- 
derek