[sclug] lost termninals

[ed]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:38:15 +0000
"Spiros Kapetanakis" <spizkapa at gmail.com> wrote:

> a weird thing just happened to my Ubuntu Linux box. The Ctrl-Alt-F1 to
> F6 key combo no longer takes me to another virtual terminal. It just
> sits there... It's as if I had no more terminals started but I haven't
> changed anything.
> 
> I checked that there are no keyboard shortcuts overiding the
> combination but then, I'm out of ideas. There used to be a /etc/ttys
> file on other linux distros but not on Ubuntu.
> 
> Any ideas? Many thanks.

Does /etc/inttab contain:

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

(Modify, then kill -HUP 1)

Does ctrl-alt-f8 take you to a blank screen with a cursor blinking? If
so, hit alt-[right arrow] a few times, if you're lucky you will find a
console.

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