I have no consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F1 does nothing) ;(

[Nick Stinemates]

You can try to take a look at the process list to even see if they are running..

Example:

keeb at lily:~$ ps -ef | grep tty
root      3781     1  0 09:33 tty1     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
root      3782     1  0 09:33 tty2     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
root      3783     1  0 09:33 tty3     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
root      3784     1  0 09:33 tty4     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
root      3785     1  0 09:33 tty5     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
root      3786     1  0 09:33 tty6     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6

If they are running, it's probably a problem someone else mentioned.

Hope this helps,
 - Nick Stinemates

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:14:59PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Tommy Trussell wrote:
> 
> > On 1/18/07, Ben Edwards <funkytwig at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 18/01/07, Brian Fahrlander <brian at fahrlander.net> wrote:
> >> > Ben Edwards wrote:
> >> > > Wren I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 at the same time nothing happens.  It seems
> >> > > my consoles are not running.  Any ideas?
> >> >
> >> >     USB Keyboard?  That's what does it here, on my machines.  The bios
> >> > chooses one socket and needs a certain (perhaps "legacy") mode.
> >>
> >> Its a Dell Insperon 2650 laptop using its internal keyboard.
> > 
> > I know nothing about your specific situation (you didn't even state
> > which version of Ubuntu you're using), but I had the same problem on
> > my Mac PowerBook G3 for the Ubuntu 5.04 and 5.10 releases, but it was
> > fixed in Dapper 6.06. I believe the problem was the (then new) xorg
> > wasn't passing the keystrokes to invoke the VTs.
> 
> hmmm. I'm not sure that's quite the problem - the VTs should be created by
> init - but there was definitely a problem with xorg that caused this.
>  
> > You might try opening a terminal window and using this command
> > 
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> 
> yep.
> -- 
> derek
> 
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