Ubuntu :: Login Prompt - Virtual Terminals Not Working?
Feb 6, 2010
Usually I get a login prompt on Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6], but now I just see a blinking cursor in all of them, along with some boot messages in the first virtual terminal.
Code:
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.6
init: bootchart main process (462) terminated with status 2
init: bootchart post-stop process (474) terminated with status 127
/dev/sda2: clean, (integer)/(integer) files, (integer)/(integer) blocks
init: ureadahead-other main process (870) terminated with status 4
What's even weirder about this is that I uninstalled bootchart a few months ago. Whether that's related or not is beyond me, but the virtual terminals did stop working somewhere around that time. I solved this by reverting to my original /etc/network/interfaces file. Without the loopback "lo" device, the runlevel was never set, and virtual terminals never loaded.
This should be somewhere in the interfaces file:
Code:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
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Jul 13, 2009
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Code:
# tty2 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on tty2 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.
[code]....
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ps -ef | egrep 'tty[1-6]'
gives
root 1024 1 0 22:58 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty4
root 1028 1 0 22:58 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty5
root 1036 1 0 22:58 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty2
[code].....
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