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Re: tty2,tty3,... missing after fresh install



On 2015-05-01 17:42 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> After freshly installing Debian Jessie on my old laptop, with no graphical
> environment yet, at prompt, only tty1 is present: if I press Alt-F2, Alt-F3 and
> so on, there's no prompt at all, no tty2, tty3, etc.  Is that normal?

No, only a short delay before the login prompt appears is to be expected
since systemd starts gettys by demand.  But that should hardly be
noticeable.

After you switched to tty2 and back to tty1, what does
"systemctl status getty@tty2.service" print?

Cheers,
       Sven


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