[Gllug] can't switch between virtual terminals

[Sean Burlington]

much later - but I found some time to mess with this again...

Xander D Harkness wrote:
> Sean Burlington wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>     I'm having a few annoying problems with debian at the moment ...
>>
>> I have taken over a job and computer - the computer runs Debian woody 
>> on a compaq evo
>>
>> mostly things work Ok - but I can't switch between virtual terminals - 
>> I can get tty1 but nothing else
>>
>> X starts OK and I am happily working in kde - but if I log out or 
>> switch to tty1 - I cant get back to X :( 
> 
> 
> oooooh, I should have read this more thoroughly.  Just on a Monday not 
> thinking straight line of thought, what happens if you start another X 
> session from tty1 (X :2) - does it go to alt F8 of alt F7?
> 

it seems to go to F8 - but I just get another black screen (with a 
blinking underscore character  top left)

now alt-ctrl-F[1-6] takes me to the riht virtual console
alt-ctrl-F[7-8] takes me to a black screen

alt-ctrl-F[9-12] have no effect

I have discovered why tty2-6 were missing (now fixed)
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

and I'm in runlevel 5 (doh!)

> 
>>
>>
>> a (related?) problem is that I can't start X apps from root's xterm 
> 

I can open X apps as root if I do

cp /home/seanb/.Xauthority /root/

and I have discoverd that if I run kcontrol as root - I am then able to 
log out of kde and get back to the kdelogin panel

(normally logging out of kde takes me to a black screen)

-- 

Sean


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