Re: virtual text consoles gone

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:01:46 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:25, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 
>>
>> I have been upgrading.  Could it be that three revisions of kernels have
>> passed me by unnoticed without a reboot?  (I check /boot).  Nope.  Better
>> investigate why I'm not getting the upgrades.
> 
>   If you have both linux-image-2.6-<arch> and 
> linux-image-2.6.18-<version>-<arch> on your machine, then 


It turns out I hadn't installed linux-image-2.6-amd64, so it didn't
automatically notice the new kernel, because there was no dependency.

I installed the new kernel, and it crashed during reboot.

I booted the new kernel a second dime, and it didn't crash this time.

hendrik@april:~$ uname -a
Linux april 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:50:19 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
hendrik@april:~$

Still no ctl-alt-F1, though.  Next I'll try replacing the keyboard.

-- hendrik.