Brendon wrote:
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 tty6up to the letter. i believe the problem started when i changed the default runlevel from id:2:initdefault:toid: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
Odd. Just for experimentation purposes, you might try "init 2" to switch to runlevel 2 and see if that restores your ttys. Then switch back to 5 and see if your ttys disappear.