Re: virtual text consoles gone
On 04 Apr 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text
> > console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to
> > it excpet for regular upgrades, and the installation of an ocasional new
> > Debian package. Anyone have any ideas where to start looking?
> >
> > hendrik@april:~$ uname -a
> > Linux april 2.6.18-3-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 17:04:37 CET 2006 x86_64
> > GNU/Linux
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux snoopy 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 27 16:52:38 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I had similar experience sometime ago. Then problem disapeared as I
> updated system. So if suggestion by others does not work, think about
> moing to a newer kernel in unstable.
>
> (But watch out. One kernel update caused me to loose my network device
> ue to kernel bug in unstable.)
>
That hasn't worked here for at least a year. And now I can't even close
X with ctrl-alt-del.
Anthony
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