What happened to the consoles?

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 23 21:57:25 UTC 2017


On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 5:17 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Do you mean that you're at the lightdm login screen and that you can't
>> switch to a VT?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Does it work after you press escape or click on the background or the panel?
>
> No.
>
>> Have you deleted, masked, or modified
>> /lib/systemd/system/getty at .service
>
> No.
>
>> Have you deleted or modified
>> /etc/systemd/logind.conf
>
> No.
>
> I changed nothing except downloading the update.  None of the usual
> keystrokes works.

OK.

When you're logged in, do each of alt, ctrl, and f[1-6] react normally?

if you enable a static getty, can you switch to it?

What's the output of
find /{etc,lib}/systemd/system -name "*getty*" -ls
and
grep VT /etc/systemd/logind.conf

Is systemd-logind running?




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