I seem to have almost exactly the same bug, and it's been bothering me off and on for many months now. The step to reproduce in the latest comment here from @anders works for me. (I only checked 'sudo setupcon --force')
The only differences that I have is that 1) Alt + F2 doesn't send me to a terminal, but to the GUI (and if I'm already in the GUI then it opens the run dialog as you'd expect) and 2) Ctrl + Alt + F-buttons still work during this bug for me. This is the kind of bug that makes me think twice before recommending Linux to non-technical people (which to me is the most important people to recruit), so I'm really hoping it will get fixed soon. Thank you all very much for your work! Let me know if I can be of any help with any logs or the like. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to console-setup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/520546 Title: Alt-f2 switches to virtual terminal 2 Status in console-cyrillic package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm running Ubuntu Lucid development branch. Pressing alt-f2 switches the screen to the second virtual terminal. Alt-f3 does the same to the third and so on. I expected alt-f2 to open the run dialog. I'm pretty sure that my keyboard is not malfunctioning as I can use all my applications normally. (Pressing O and Ctrl-O do not have the same effect.) I'm not sure which package I should file this bug against. I'll happily do an apport-collect once I know. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-cyrillic/+bug/520546/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp