Virtual Consoles disabled REVISITED

[David A. Cobb]

Back a while ago, Bill Marcum wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:13:30 -0500, David A. Cobb 
>   <superbiskit at cox.net> 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. 
>>     
> The problem may be your video driver.  If you have an Nvidia or ATI 
> video card, you might need proprietary drivers from the Nvidia or ATI 
> web sites.
>   
I do, indeed, have an nVidia card.  However, I can't see how that could 
affect the virtual consoles.  If I couldn't switch out of X and back in, 
I would suspect the video driver.

I took a second look, first at /etc/inittab, then at the VC1 console, 
which appears to show boot output.
It appeared that the "rcS" step:

# This is run first except when booting in emergency (-b) mode.
si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
#
was, perhaps, still running.  Possibly some startup script was not 
completing. 
I also find (from HTOP) that S20P3SCAN was still running -- which seems 
a mite strange.

To make a long story short, I moved the steps that spawn /sbin/getty so 
they /precede /running the /etc/init.d  scripts.

And that did it.  There should probably be some way to ensure that the 
rc scripts complete normally even if some component cannot complete 
without error.  Also, I obviously need to look at the P3SCAN init script 
to see why it doesn't just start a daemon and exit.

-- 
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
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