On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:02:02PM +0000, 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? > > Cheers, Hi Dave, I had a problem when I switched to xorg 7.0 in experimenal. I could not go to a console as you described. I could open a termianl and 'su' and then /etc/init.d/gdm stop and that would shut down X and bring me to a terminal. But I had the same issue. It was some error in xorg.0.conf that complinted about xkb kind of error and google and found a fix: 'mkdir /var/lib/xkb' IIRC. cheers, kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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