Brendon wrote:
Hi all,
for some reason i can only use one console. when i <alt> <ctrl> <F=>2> i
get a blank screen with a blinking cursor.
only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). anyone
know a solution?
Do you have some lines similar to this in your /etc/inittab file? If
not, I think that may be the problem. But then, I'm no expert.
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
up to the letter. i believe the problem started when i changed the default
runlevel from
id:2:initdefault:
to
id:5:initdefault:
which would mean that theres a prob with /etc/rc5.d. (i'm new to debian so
i'm just guessing) that would make sense considering i've disabled 2
services. /etc/rc5.d/ls gives:
S10sysklogd S20exim S20logoutd S20ssh S89cron S99rmnologin
S12kerneld S20gpm S20lpd S20xfs S98hwtools _S25nfs-server
S19nfs-common S20inetd S20makedev S89atd S99kdm _S99xdm
William Leese
I wonder if something is dying during the running of these start-up
scripts and S99rmnologin is never being reached. You might try running
this script manually and see if that gives you your ttys.
