No terminals on vty2-6!

humbletech99 · 01-22-2006, 12:51 PM

Hi, I've got no terminals on the vtys 2-6. Vty 1 is normal but the others are all blank with no login prompt.

Ideas?

gilead · 01-22-2006, 01:28 PM

Can you have a look in /etc/inittab and check whether there are lines like:

Code:

c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

These control the terminal spawning. I only have tty6 in GUI mode (run level 4), but they're all available in the other run levels.

humbletech99 · 01-22-2006, 01:32 PM

thanks, I've sorted that now, it was only giving ttys 2-6 in runlevels 23 while I was in runlevel 5, doh.