Re: Bug#345454: xserver-xorg: Upgrade to 6.9.0 broke vt switching

[Paul Check <paul@openstreet.com>]

Ok, this is confirmed. I can now do vt switching. Updating 
/usr/X11R6/bin/X to symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg seems to have solved 
the problem (although I also installed the nvidia-glx package, but I 
doubt this affected anything).

It seems that the X -> Xorg symlink was removed many months ago...what's 
the thinking there? Is it to encourage people to use Xorg directly?

--Paul

Paul Check wrote:

> I believe that I found the source of my problem (although I haven't 
> tested, as I have an app running and I'd like someone to comment 
> before trying another VT switch, as I've done so many hard boots already.
>
> I notice that my /usr/X11R6/bin/X file does NOT symlink to anything 
> (in particular /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg ). Further, going through my 
> backups for the last 90 days I see that it never did symlink. I'm 
> running kdm and my Xservers file reads:
>
> :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp
>
> meaning that I've never been running the Xorg server.  Correct? So, doing
>
> ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg X
>
> should get me running on Xorg and, presumably, also then VT switching 
> will work?
>
> Regards, Paul