Re: missing virtual consoles

2016-12-04 Thread Jack Craig
On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Rami Rosen wrote: > Hi Jack, > What does: > systemctl status systemd-vconsole-setup.service > return ? > > And I assume that you try virtual console when working with > Xwindows mode (as u mentioned ctrl/alt/1-7, and not with terminal >

Re: missing virtual consoles

2016-12-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/04/16 16:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Interesting, I've only dealt with GDM. Can you switch users with that > configuration? > Because with GDM, console 1 is the user login screen, so switch users changes > back to > that console to login a different user, leaving the other user session

Re: missing virtual consoles

2016-12-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/04/16 16:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/04/2016 12:03 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> FWIW, that isn't true on my system. >> >> ctl-alt-F2 brings up a VC just fine. F1 is my GUI/KDE session. I run SDDM >> as my Display >> Manager. I suppose things can be different if using GDM. If I get the

Re: missing virtual consoles

2016-12-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/03/2016 11:46 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: They should automatically get created when you switch to them. However, remember that F1 is GDM and F2 is your user session, so the first available console is F3. Sometimes it takes a few seconds for it to start up, but it should be there.

Re: missing virtual consoles

2016-12-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/04/2016 12:03 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, that isn't true on my system. ctl-alt-F2 brings up a VC just fine. F1 is my GUI/KDE session. I run SDDM as my Display Manager. I suppose things can be different if using GDM. If I get the time I'll switch to GDM on a system to check this

Re: missing virtual consoles

2016-12-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/04/16 15:46, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/03/2016 01:23 AM, Jack Craig wrote: >> i went to use a virtual console recently on my fedora workstation and >> found it not available. >> >> worse, google provides No insight how to build a virtual console service. >> i thought i recall a process to

Re: missing virtual consoles

2016-12-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/03/2016 01:23 AM, Jack Craig wrote: i went to use a virtual console recently on my fedora workstation and found it not available. worse, google provides No insight how to build a virtual console service. i thought i recall a process to clone/config a getty service and thereby enable the

Re: missing virtual consoles

2016-12-03 Thread Jack Craig
On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Rami Rosen wrote: > Hi Jack, > What does: > systemctl status systemd-vconsole-setup.service > return ? > > And I assume that you try virtual console when working with > Xwindows mode (as u mentioned ctrl/alt/1-7, and not with terminal >

Re: missing virtual consoles

2016-12-03 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi Jack, What does: systemctl status systemd-vconsole-setup.service return ? And I assume that you try virtual console when working with Xwindows mode (as u mentioned ctrl/alt/1-7, and not with terminal console mode, right? Also, is it Fedora 25 ? (BTW, once it happened to me, quite a time ago,

missing virtual consoles

2016-12-03 Thread Jack Craig
hi all, i went to use a virtual console recently on my fedora workstation and found it not available. worse, google provides No insight how to build a virtual console service. i thought i recall a process to clone/config a getty service and thereby enable the virtual consoles. is there a clue