Re: missing consoles

2001-07-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:34:54AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:29:18PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Obviously kdm is not detaching as a background process. Perhaps it > > doesn't fork? Anyway, you can try the --background argument to > > start-stop-daemon and se

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-14 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:29:18PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Obviously kdm is not detaching as a background process. Perhaps it > doesn't fork? Anyway, you can try the --background argument to > start-stop-daemon and see if that helps. Note: you can't rely on the > exit status of start-stop

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:13:38PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:58:59PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:16:33PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > > [snip] > > > I took a look at this, where the virtual consoles are created, and see > now > > >

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:58:59PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:16:33PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > [snip] > > I took a look at this, where the virtual consoles are created, and see now > > how both my problem were caused. Somehow one of the init.d scripts (I > > t

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:16:33PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: [snip] > I took a look at this, where the virtual consoles are created, and see now > how both my problem were caused. Somehow one of the init.d scripts (I > think it was kdm itself) didn't return, so init didn't finish reading > thr

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:14:53PM -0400, Jeld The Dark Elf wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:31:08AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > > Hello all. I recently ran into a strange (to me, at least) problem on my > > debian computer at home. All of the virtual consoles are here. I can > > still us

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:31:08AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > Hello all. I recently ran into a strange (to me, at least) problem on my > debian computer at home. All of the virtual consoles are here. I can > still use ctrl-alt-[1-7], but there are no login prompts (although gpm > still work

missing consoles

2001-07-12 Thread David J. Roundy
Hello all. I recently ran into a strange (to me, at least) problem on my debian computer at home. All of the virtual consoles are here. I can still use ctrl-alt-[1-7], but there are no login prompts (although gpm still works fine, and I can type), and now X is on console 2 rather than console 7.

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:18:12PM +0100, Brendon wrote: > > > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 ^^ This is the problem :) You don't start in other consoles in runlevel 5, except the first 1 ! > > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 No 5 here matey ! Cliff

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Defresne Sylvain
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Brendon wrote: > > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> for some reason i can only use one console. when i > >>> 2> i get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. > >>> > >>> only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). > >>> anyone know a solutio

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Brendon
On Sunday 14 January 2001 23:31, Kent West wrote: > Brendon wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> for some reason i can only use one console. when i 2> > >>> i get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. > >>> > >>> only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). > >>> anyone know a s

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Kent West
Brendon wrote: Hi all, for some reason i can only use one console. when i 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 th

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Kent West
Brendon wrote: Hi all, for some reason i can only use one console. when i 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 th

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le dim, 14 jan 2001 23:18:12, Brendon a écrit : > > > Hi all, > > > > > > for some reason i can only use one console. when i > 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? > > >

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Brendon
> > Hi all, > > > > for some reason i can only use one console. when i 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

Re: missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread Kent West
William Leese wrote: Hi all, for some reason i can only use one console. when i 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? William Leese Do you have some lines similar to this in your /etc

missing consoles

2001-01-14 Thread William Leese
Hi all, for some reason i can only use one console. when i 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? William Leese