Virtual Consoles disabled

[Tim Frost]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 19:13 -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
> Running UBUNTU Hoary, GNOME 2.10.0.
> 
> Since a fairly recent update, I find I no longer have LOGIN running on
> the lower Virtual Consoles.  If I switch out, all I have is a blank
> screen (or the last screen-full of boot output).  Clearly I got
> something mis-configured.  
> 
> Can anyone advise me what application is supposed to fire off the
> various VC's.  I would imagine it's in INIT, but that's not something
> to play with blindly I suspect.  As it is, I can function using a
> terminal session and su; if I screw up INIT I might not be able to do
> anything at all.

There should be lines in /etc/inittab as follows:
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

getty is the program that manages the consoles.


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