Re: vts have stopped working here

[Ed Tomlinson]

On January 23, 2004 08:05 am, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:43:38AM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > Is anyone else having problems with vt(s)?  I can switch between X and vt
> > 1 without problems.  Trying to use any of the other vt(s) fails.
> >
> > A+C+F1 flips from X to vt1
> > A+F2 flips to vt7 (x)
> > A+C+F2 from X does nothing
> >
> > In my logs there are messages about init spawing too fast.  Suspect that
> > these are the processes for the Vt(s) started with:
> >
> > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
>
> Interesting. The vt's don't exist until something writes to them. So
> most likely X is running on vt2 in your case. As to why the processes
> keep dying - no idea.

No.  X is running on vt7.  Selecting F2,F3,F4,F5,F6 all get you to the X
screen, and these are the ids init complains about in the log.  Interestingly 
this happens on two boxes (K6-III 400 via, P3-1.4G Intel).

Ed
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