[SOLVED] Virtual Consoles

ljshap · 2020-02-01 13:09:47

I am no longer able to switch between virtual consoles by typing Crtl-alt-Fn or alt-Fn.
I'm not sure when this happened but I think its relatively recent.
The only steps I've taken is to comment out the NAutoVTs=6 line in /etc/system.d/logind.conf and a subsequent reboot.

Any comments or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.

Thanks

Last edited by ljshap (2020-02-06 02:51:07)

schard · 2020-02-01 13:23:24

Well comment that in again.
The setting defines the amount of virtual terminals to be startet by default. O.o
Edit: According to the man page it should still default to 6 when not set i.e. commented out.
What's the status of your agetty@.service?

Last edited by schard (2020-02-01 13:27:23)

ljshap · 2020-02-01 15:09:56

schard wrote:

Well comment that in again.
The setting defines the amount of virtual terminals to be startet by default. O.o
Edit: According to the man page it should still default to 6 when not set i.e. commented out.
What's the status of your agetty@.service?

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction:

I did re-comment the NAutoVTs=6 line and "played" with the getty services.

systemctl list-unit-files | grep getty shows the following:

     console-getty.service               disabled       
     container-getty@.service         static         
     getty@.service                         enabled        
     serial-getty@.service               disabled       
     getty-pre.target                       static         
     getty.target                              static

All seems to be working now!

Thanks Again
Larry

Arch Linux

#1 2020-02-01 13:09:47

[SOLVED] Virtual Consoles

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtual Consoles

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtual Consoles

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