Missing virtual terminals

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Aug 8 18:56:52 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

Yep.  Once I fixed my sources.list so I could see it, my terminals are
back :-)
-- 
derek





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