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Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions



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On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:01:17 +0000
Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:02:30PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> 
> > I have been having trouble lately with losing access to my
> > graphical console. The basic symptom is that I am in the
> > graphical console, I switch to a text console via Ctrl+Alt+F1, do
> > some stuff in the text console, then when I attempt to switch


> Have you checked Alt+F8, Alt+F9, possibly even beyond? On one of my
> systems, for reasons that are still unclear to me, GDM occasionally
> runs somewhere between tty8-10 after I've logged in and out a few
> times. I can only guess it's restarting before it's fully stopped.
> 
z

  Same thing here - running Debian testing...and after switching
back and forth a few times GDM ends up on tty8 instead of 7.
 

- -- 
Frank
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