tty's not working

kpachopoulos · 05-31-2006, 05:16 AM

Hi,
Everything yesterday was fine. I didn't mess with the system- Debian Etch. Today, when i turned it on, i could not get into the X-System. Playing around. i also found out that i couldn't change tty with Ctrl+Alt+Fx. I also think, that the "ps -A" output looks weard:

Code:

 PID TTY          TIME CMD
    1 ?        00:00:00 init
    2 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
    3 ?        00:00:00 events/0
    4 ?        00:00:00 khelper
    5 ?        00:00:00 kacpid
   38 ?        00:00:00 kblockd/0
   48 ?        00:00:00 pdflush
   49 ?        00:00:00 pdflush
   51 ?        00:00:00 aio/0
   50 ?        00:00:00 kswapd0
  193 ?        00:00:00 kseriod
  320 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
  600 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
  601 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
  602 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
  603 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
  608 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
  609 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
  750 ?        00:00:00 ata/0
  751 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
  752 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
  825 ?        00:00:00 khubd
 1332 ?        00:00:00 syslogd
 1338 ?        00:00:00 klogd
 1395 ?        00:00:00 acpid
 1401 ?        00:00:00 cupsd
 1426 ?        00:00:00 dirmngr
 1470 ?        00:00:00 exim4
 1479 ?        00:00:00 inetd
 1490 ?        00:00:00 no-ip
 1495 ?        00:00:00 ntop
 1504 ?        00:00:00 sshd
 1515 ?        00:00:00 xfs
 1653 ?        00:00:00 Xprt
 1660 ?        00:00:00 atd
 1666 ?        00:00:00 cron
 1718 ?        00:00:00 apache
 1723 ?        00:00:00 apache
 1724 ?        00:00:00 apache
 1725 ?        00:00:00 apache
 1726 ?        00:00:00 apache
 1727 ?        00:00:00 apache
 1734 ?        00:00:00 apache-ssl
 1739 ?        00:00:00 gcache
 1749 ?        00:00:00 apache-ssl
 1750 ?        00:00:00 apache-ssl
 1751 ?        00:00:00 apache-ssl
 1752 ?        00:00:00 apache-ssl
 1753 ?        00:00:00 apache-ssl
 1757 ?        00:00:00 kdm
 1774 tty1     00:00:00 login
 1800 tty1     00:00:00 bash
 1810 tty1     00:00:00 ps

Ideas? Thanks

Wim Sturkenboom · 06-02-2006, 02:37 AM

Mine looks similar.

Can you totally not get X started (with startx) or did it not start automatically?
Have you had a look at /etc/inittab?

vkmgeek · 06-02-2006, 03:04 AM

Hi,

very primory reason that u can't get into x-system is ur root directory is full..
apply
df -h command and show the output here..

kpachopoulos · 06-02-2006, 03:57 AM

Problem fixed. One of the last things i had done before the problem, was trying to install udev. As apt informed me, that it required a newer kernel i removed it. However while installing it, apt must have removed hotplug. Reeinstalling hotlug fixed everything.

Thanks everybody; it had slipped my mind