Re: missing consoles

[Brendon <brendon@europe.nl.com>]

> > Hi all,
> >
> > for some reason i can only use one console. when i <alt> <ctrl> <F=>2> i
> > get a blank screen with a blinking cursor.
> >
> > only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). anyone
> > know a solution?
>
> Do you have some lines similar to this in your /etc/inittab file? If
> not, I think that may be the problem. But then, I'm no expert.
>
> 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

up to the letter. i believe the problem started when i changed the default 
runlevel from 

id:2:initdefault: 

to

id:5:initdefault: 

which would mean that theres a prob with /etc/rc5.d. (i'm new to debian so 
i'm just guessing) that would make sense considering i've disabled 2 
services. /etc/rc5.d/ls gives:

S10sysklogd    S20exim   S20logoutd  S20ssh  S89cron     S99rmnologin
S12kerneld     S20gpm    S20lpd      S20xfs  S98hwtools  _S25nfs-server
S19nfs-common  S20inetd  S20makedev  S89atd  S99kdm      _S99xdm


William Leese