inittab -- Where'd all my consoles go?

[Janina Sajka]

Will Woods writes:
>
> On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> I've successfully upgraded two machines from F-8 to the F-9 beta. A diff
>> against my old /etc/inittab indicates Anaconda didn't touch that file,
>> but my 24 consoles are no longer available? How do I get them back? I
>> really do use them all and feel massively cramped with the default set.
>
> Upstart is our init now; inittab is no longer used.
>
> See /etc/event.d/tty[1-6].
>
Ah, yes, thank you. I've added tty[7-24] now, except for tty11 where I
prefer my gui, for some old reason I no longer even recall.

>> Is this now managed elsewhere? Upstart, perhaps? If so, what file do I 
>> edit to get additional consoles? And, is there a new equiv of 'init q' ?
>
> Upstart watches the files in /etc/event.d and refreshes automatically when 
> they're changed.


Indeed, this did bring up text consoles. However, I've had mixed results
with the gui. Because I was trying to move the gui to tty11, I first did
telinit 3. I did indeed get a text console on tty7, but a followup
telinit 5 didn't bring the gui back. I had to reboot on one machine, and
even that hasn't helped with the older i386 yet. Strange on the last
point.

Janina

>
> inittab will probably contain some helpful comments explaining all this for 
> F9 final.
>
> -w
>
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