[SOLVED] Virtual Consoles are blank

bloodniece · 2009-10-10 20:03:05

All my virtual consoles are blank except for VC1 which is showing boot messages.
I have GDM set to start as a daemon and vc7 works for X just fine. vc2-6 just show a blinking cursor with no login prompt.

I have clueless of what the issue could be. I have not disabled any VC's in /etc/inittab

Last edited by bloodniece (2009-10-12 15:02:05)

loafer · 2009-10-10 20:07:19

Can you post your .bashrc and .bash_profile please.

bloodniece · 2009-10-10 21:44:19

bashrc

# Check for an interactive session
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias pacman='pacman-color'
alias mkdir='mkdir -v -p'
alias big='du --max-depth=1 | sort -nr | head'
alias home='cd && clear'
alias chromium='chromium-browser --enable-plugins'
#PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '
PS1='\[\e[0;32m\]\u\[\e[m\] \[\e[1;34m\]\w\[\e[m\] \[\e[m\] \[\e[1;32m\]\$ \[\e[m\]\[\e[1;37m\] '
eval `dircolors -b`
export GREP_COLOR="1;33"
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . /etc/bash_completion
fi

###############
# Audio Plugins
###############
export LADSPA_PATH=/usr/lib/ladspa:~/.ladspa:/usr/local/lib/ladspa
export LV2_PATH=/usr/lib/lv2:~/.lv2:/usr/local/lib/lv2
export DSSI_PATH=/usr/lib/dssi:~/.dssi:/usr/local/lib/dssi
export VST_PATH=/usr/lib/vst:~/.vst:/usr/local/lib/vst

##############
# SSH Keychain
##############
/usr/bin/keychain -Q -q ~/.ssh/id_dsa
[[ -f $HOME/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh ]] && source $HOME/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh


##############
# WELCOME SCREEN
##############

clear

echo -ne "${LIGHTGREEN}" "Hello, $USER. today is, "; date
echo -e "${LIGHTRED}"; cal ;
echo -ne "${CYAN}";
echo -ne "${LIGHTPURPLE}Sysinfo:";uptime ;echo ""

#################
#extraction utils
#################
extract () {
   if [ -f $1 ] ; then
       case $1 in
           *.tar.bz2)   tar xvjf $1    ;;
           *.tar.gz)    tar xvzf $1    ;;
           *.bz2)       bunzip2 $1     ;;
           *.rar)       unrar x $1     ;;
           *.gz)        gunzip $1      ;;
           *.tar)       tar xvf $1     ;;
           *.tbz2)      tar xvjf $1    ;;
           *.tgz)       tar xvzf $1    ;;
           *.zip)       unzip $1       ;;
           *.Z)         uncompress $1  ;;
           *.7z)        7z x $1        ;;
           *)           echo "don't know how to extract '$1'..." ;;
       esac
   else
       echo "'$1' is not a valid file!"
   fi
 }

bash_profile

. $HOME/.bashrc

damjan · 2009-10-10 22:10:20

bashrc and bash_profile ?!? I fail to see the connection.

@bloodniece
can you check to see if it's the same problem as reported here
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=80939

in summary, a rogue udev rule file (in my case /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules) made the /dev/tty[12345.] device nodes disappear, so that the gettys couldn't be started

ngoonee · 2009-10-10 23:04:26

Another possibility is you're using the nvidia proprietary drivers, they make my laptop do that...

bloodniece · 2009-10-10 23:55:03

I am using nvidia drivers. i can try the nouveau driver to see.

As far as inittab goes, here's the relevant section:

c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty6 linux

running /sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux from an xterm will start agetty on tty2

hmm

Garns · 2009-10-11 01:31:33

Please ignore the stuff I wrote at the top of the other thread , the issue lies somewhere else.

Did this start when you upgraded your kernel? Do you have a udev.rules file lying around in /etc/udev/rules.d/ which doesn't belong to any package? If that is the case try removing the file (move it out of the directory, just to be save) .

bloodniece · 2009-10-11 04:11:09

Well, I have 2.6.31 installed, but I only boot using 2.6.29-rt

Everything in udev.rules is owned by root.

ngoonee · 2009-10-11 05:12:32

bloodniece wrote:

Well, I have 2.6.31 installed, but I only boot using 2.6.29-rt
Everything in udev.rules is owned by root.

Don't .31 and .29 depend on slightly different versions of udev? Kernel26rt has already been updated to .31 in the AUR.

bloodniece · 2009-10-11 17:16:01

I'm installing nvidia-rt (185.18.36) and kernel26rt (2.6.31_rt11) right now and will report back after I boot the new kernel.

UPDATE

I installed and booted kernel26rt 2.6.31_rt11 and vc2-6 are still not starting.

Linux upperdeck 2.6.31-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Wed Oct 7 12:13:47 RET 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Next stop is nouveau driver instead of NVIDIA, though I don't see the connection with agetty.

UPDATE (10/12/2009)
I backed up my existing xorg.conf and generated a new one using hwd.
After restarting X I can now access agetty on tty1-6. I haven't had a chance to compare the two xorg.conf files. I'll post that for those who might have the same issue as me.

On this particular Arch machine I rarely update unless I need a package that depends on newer packages or if something is broken. So far the new realtime preemptive kernel is working fine.

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