Re: vts have stopped working here

[Vojtech Pavlik]

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.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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