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Old 10-05-2006, 12:35 AM   #1
alpha_lin
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could not switch to terminal session

hi,
when i installed kubuntu, everything worked fine.
but something happened and i am not able to switch to tty1 or tty2 or ... from tty7 .
please help me
 
Old 10-05-2006, 06:27 PM   #2
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What do you mean "something" happened. Like what happened? When you are prompted at the login (gui or text mode), just press ctrl+alt+F1...F2...F3...F4...F5, etc... You should see it changes your TTY#.
 
Old 10-06-2006, 07:00 AM   #3
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i dont know exactly what happened but ctrl+alt+F1 or F2 etc are not working.
 
  


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