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ljshap

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From: Ossining, NY

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 160

[SOLVED] Virtual Consoles

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)

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schard

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Re: [SOLVED] Virtual Consoles

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)

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ljshap

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From: Ossining, NY

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 160

Re: [SOLVED] Virtual Consoles

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

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