Dave Ewart wrote:
I recently upgraded this desktop from Sarge to Etch and pretty-much everything has worked as well as before, or better, which is great. However, I find that I can no longer switch between virtual consoles using Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-F2 etc. The 'getty's appear to be running OK, but I can't switch to them. $ ps ax|grep getty 3911 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 3912 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 3913 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 3914 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 3915 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 3916 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 14354 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep getty I don't even know where to start on this one: any ideas, people?
Maybe this bug has propagated from Sid to Etch:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345454
Sometimes it seems to be possible to fix it by running
apt-get -f install
apt-get install xlibs xlibs-data
and restarting X.
Furthermore, make sure that your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file has "xorg" as
the value for "XkbRules" (and not "xfree86"). More details related to
this can be found in /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz
Also check your xorg.conf for occurrences of "DontVTSwitch", "VTSysReq",
"XkbDisable" and "HandleSpecialKeys". These can interfere with the VT
switching. ("man xorg.conf" has more info under "SERVERFLAGS SECTION")
If the problem persists, check for warnings and errors in the Xorg log
egrep '^\((WW|EE)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
and post them here together with your xorg.conf.
Regards,
Florian