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> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:06:20 -0500 > From: zlinuxman@wowway.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions > > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:11:02 -0500 (EST), Frank McCormick wrote: > > 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. > > > Same thing here - running Debian testing...and after switching > > back and forth a few times GDM ends up on tty8 instead of 7. > > I must confess I never even thought to check that. The next time > it happens, I'll give it a try. Have either of you come up with > a consistent scenario that always reproduces the failure? Not consistently, but the issue exists on my ubuntu installed laptop as well. > explicitly stopping and restarting the X server or the GDM daemon. > I'm just switching back and forth between a text console and the > graphical console. Has either of you filed a bug report? No, but if one could provided insight to where exactly the fault was (what causes the graphical console number to change or become unresponsive, it would help. > The only reason I haven't asked about this before is that I was > hoping to come up with a consistent failure scenario. There's > nothing worse than a bug that can't be reproduced on demand. I agree with you on that. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -M All your Hotmail contacts on your phone. Try it now. |