Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:02:00 +0200, goran@dobosevic.com wrote:
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last
>> week, and used it to install testing.
>>
>> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using
>> ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened.
>>
>> How do I go about getting such a console? I can get a root command
>> window, but if I end up upgrading X sometime, that doesn't seem the
>> best place to be controlling the upgrade from.
>>
>> -- hendrik
>>
>>
> Ctrl+Alt+F1 works on my up-to-date Squeeze KDE. I just tried. You can
> always chose "Your Kernel version Singleuser" in grub. Or you can switch
> to console (session manager or something like that at the bottom of
> display) before entering your user name and password. Hope that will
> help you.
Upgrading doesn't necessarily give the same results as a new
installation, in my experience. Sometimes upgrading will give you a new
way of doing the same thing, whereas installing will give you a new thing
instead. Or sometimes the configuration defaults change, but upgrade
doesn't mess with old configurations.
I find myself wondering if there's some setting (about the availability
of ctrl-alt-F1) that has a different default value, and I have to find it
and change it.
-- hendrik
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