Yoink! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Douglas Alan wrote:
> > Ever since I upgraded to Red Hat 8.0, the virtual consoles have become
> > broken. They work when I first boot the computer, but after some amount
> > of time they stop working. I.e., if I type ctrl-alt-F1 or ctrl-alt-F2,
> > etc., all I get is a black screen.
> > Since I usually run at run-level 3, this is particularly annoying. I
> > have to go to another computer and ssh to my computer in order to run
> > startx.
> > Any idea what is going on and how I can fix it?
> I always got VT's to work using "right-alt-f2" etc, I think the control
> keys may be screwing you up.
Thanks, but that's not the problem. The virtual consoles are really
broken.
> Make sure you also have mingetty installed,
Would mingetty be installed when I first boot the computer, and then
after some amount of time become mysteriously uninstalled, only to them
be mysterious reinstalled when I reboot the computer?
ps shows that at least some of the mingetty's are running:
% ps auwwwx | grep -i mingetty
root 926 0.0 0.1 1316 336 tty3 S Nov12 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
root 927 0.0 0.1 1316 372 tty4 S Nov12 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
root 928 0.0 0.1 1316 336 tty5 S Nov12 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
root 929 0.0 0.1 1316 336 tty6 S Nov12 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
Strangely, there is no mingetty running on tty1 or on tty2, but I just
get a black screen if I try to switch to *any* of the virtual consoles,
even though there is a mingetty running on some of them. If I try to
run a mingetty on tty1 as root, it just exits leaving the following
entry in /var/log/messages:
Nov 15 18:27:17 gaffa mingetty[421]: /dev/tty1: cannot open tty:
Operation not permitted
The "runlevel" command says that we are at runlevel 3. The contents of
/etc/inittab look correct:
# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
> and check your log files for references to mingetty, spawning, and
> tty's.
Other than the entry mentioned above, there are no errors containing
"mingetty", "tty", or "spawning" in /var/log/messages.
|>oug
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