On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 14:35:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > I don't use gdm, but this behavior seems broken to me. Why can't it > just use the first available VT by default, like the X server does by > itself? > There's a race if you start both X and getty at the same time, and both decide that vt N is available. Configuring them to use fixed, distinct VTs is more robust. Cheers, Julien