Hello, I am able to reproduce and fix this bug, which is very annoying (thanks to Patrizio Bruno that put me in the very right direction with his mail).
The bug happens when someone configures more than 6 consoles in inittab: for example, I have this: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/fgetty tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/fgetty tty3 4:23:respawn:/sbin/fgetty tty4 5:23:respawn:/sbin/fgetty tty5 6:23:respawn:/sbin/fgetty tty6 7:23:respawn:/sbin/fgetty tty7 8:23:respawn:/sbin/fgetty tty8 9:23:respawn:/sbin/fgetty tty9 10:23:respawn:/sbin/fgetty tty10 11:23:respawn:/sbin/fgetty tty11 12:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty12 In this case, when gdm starts at boot, it seems to engage in some race condition for controlling VC 7: it may be that fgetty starts after gdm started and takes the keyboard input away. The bug probably doesn't show when running gdm by hand, since at that point (f)getty is already running on that VC. To solve the problem, one just needs to change FirstVT to something higher: I have set FirstVT=13 and now everything works perfectly. Finally I can use gdm on my systems! Thanks Patrizio so much! Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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