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Re: Pseudo terminals missing



Hello, Douglas. I ran "ps -C getty" but there weren't processes listed. Also, I run a "locate getty" and "which getty" (as root and user as well) but there weren't results either... although, the comands for the stty's are present in /etc/inittab as you mentioned.
Some time ago I tweaked the package system trying to install a version of a package in the testing repository... I don't remember which one... . Maybe I didn't notice and that's when the problem started.

About which vt I am using... I supposed etch default one.

Also X is started automatically by GDM and I don't know how to get out of X (except for swtching to pseudoterminals... which aren't there)

2007/7/14, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>:
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 01:04:37PM -0500, Saul Mena Avila wrote:
> Hi. I've been running Debian etch for 1 month or so and I noticed yesterday
> that when pressing CTRL + ALT + F1-F6, there aren't the usual
> psuedoterminals.
> I don't get error messages but Is this normal?

No.

If you look near the end of /etc/inittab you should see lines for
gettys.

Assuming that they're there, you should get some output with
$ ps -C getty

If CTRL-ALT-F1 doesn't work, from what vt are you trying?  If you are in
X at the time, it could be that X is capturing keys.

Try getting out of X (I don't know how you got into it; I always use
startx) and see where you are.

Doug.


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