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nkd 02-01-2009 09:35 PM
unable to access the virtual terminals in fedora 10
 
I have loaded fedora 10 on my laptop. I get the runlevel 5 in the first one (CTRL+ALT+F5).
However, nothing happens when I press the F2 through F6.
What could be the reason?
any clue should be helpful. thanks in advance
nik

jailbait 02-02-2009 04:23 PM
<CTRL+ALT+F1> through <CTRL+ALT+F6> are defined in /etc/inittab. The first thing you should check is your /etc/inittab file. Near the bottom of /etc/inittab you should have a section that looks like this:

Code:

# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
--------------------------
Steve Stites

P.S. If /etc/inittab is OK then see if you can get mingetty working again by logging in as root and issuing this command:

init -q

nkd 02-02-2009 09:05 PM
Quote:
<CTRL+ALT+F1> through <CTRL+ALT+F6> are defined in /etc/inittab. The first thing you should check is your /etc/inittab file.
Well, indeed they are missing. But the reason why I havenot added them as yet is I hear that fedora 10 has adopted a new GUI booting up method or something like that and they have moved the GUI which was erstwhile at ctl+alt+F7 to F1. Shall I still add the entries as you indicated to the /etc/inittab file ?

thanks for your response
nishith

jailbait 02-03-2009 12:27 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by nkd (Post 3429778)
Well, indeed they are missing. But the reason why I have not added them as yet is I hear that fedora 10 has adopted a new GUI booting up method or something like that and they have moved the GUI which was erstwhile at ctl+alt+F7 to F1. Shall I still add the entries as you indicated to the /etc/inittab file ?
I run CentOS which is a clone of Red Hat/Fedora. So far CentOS hasn't changed the traditional way of handling <CTRL+ALT+F1>. If you think that F1 is now used for something else in Fedora then you could just set up F2 through F6 in /etc/inittab.

Code:

# Run gettys in standard runlevels
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
------------------------
Steve Stites


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