Fedora 10 ctf-alt-F2

[Patrick Dupre]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Patrick Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Since I moved from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10, I lost the functionality of
>> the ctl-alt-Fx in a X session.
>> In text mode every works fine, but from a X session, it breaks jsut the
>> session.
>>
>> thank for your help.
> Hmm. switching to virtual consoles tty2 through tty6 works for me
> using the keyboard shortcuts.
>
> in F10  runlevel 5  the X session now starts on the first virtual
> terminal which is mapped to ALT-CTRL-F1 but the second virtual
> terminal at ALT-CTRL-F2 should still exist as a console login.
> run this command: ps aux |grep mingetty
> you should see mingetty running on tty2 through tty6   by default if
> you started in runlevel 5.
this is correct, but I start in runlevel3
I log in tty1, then startx
Then if I make Ctl-Atl-F2, it scratches the X session.

>
> Each running mingetty instance should provide a login prompt
>
> -jef
>
>

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