Missing virtual terminals

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Aug 8 17:39:08 UTC 2005


Bob Nielsen wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:17:57PM +0530, Ankur Jain wrote:
>> When I press ctrl+alt+<function keys>, nothing happens; I remain
>> inside Gnome/Kde only; as if nothing had been pressed.
>> 
>> I tried installing xkbutils as well. but I could not find any package
>> by that name; my sources.list is the same from ubuntuguide.org; no
>> idea what is happening now.
> 
> $ apt-cache policy xkbutils
> xkbutils:
>   Installed: 7.0-3
>   Candidate: 7.0-3
>   Version table:
>  *** 7.0-3 0
>         900 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Oops.  Should make sure that when I comment out elements in sources.list to
test things, I uncomment them again :-)  No wonder I've had no updates in
breezy for a week!
-- 
derek





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