<SOLVED by upgrade> Virtual ttys not accessible

[kjpetrie]

If I use ctrl+alt +F1 etc to switch virtual terminals I can't get to a log in screen, even if I boot with a 3 added to the end of the kernel options.

ctrl+alt +F1 gives me a screen with "acpi: skipping conf file /etc/acpi/events.." as the last line.
ctrl+alt +F2 gives me a black screen with a flashing horizontal cursor in the top left corner.
ctrl+alt +F3 gives me a screen with

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PCMCIA: probing for Databook TCIC-2 (ISA)
*        Not found as the last two lines.
ctrl+alt +F4-6 give me a black screen with a flashing horizontal cursor in the top left corner.
ctrl+alt +F7 gives me a screen with boot messages ending in "Checking for new Hardware  [OK]" with a flashing horizontal cursor on the line below.

I see this on both my Acer Aspire and this machine (spec in sig). The Acer was installed from a recent remaster and is only a couple of weeks behind current.

I also had the problem on my old K2VT7 system around 27th August. That was installed from a contemporary remaster. I noticed it then because I was trying to get the serial mouse working and without a mouse switching terminals becomes a natural way to access things. However, I didn't realise until recently it wasn't just that machine.

My eeepc which is still running KDE 4.5.00 from an earlier remaster has the terminals 1-6 as normal, although number 7 still has the boot messages.

Is it just my system or are others getting the same?

[Bald Brick]

Ctrl+Alt+F1 to F6 work as they always have giving me tty1 to tty6.

Ctrl+Alt+F7 gives me a black screen with

Loading sensors modules:
Starting sensord:
Starting netprofile: The default is the current profile.
Checking for new hardware

The first three lines are followed by  a normal [  OK  ], but it seems that the checking for new hardware is never finished.

Ctrl+Alt+F8 gives me back my first graphical screen, or in other words, it does what Ctrl+Alt+F7 used to do.



Edit: The machine is an Acer Aspire M5201 desktop, with the KDE version of PCLinuxOS, fully updated and with lots of additional programmes.

[tschommer]

I thought the same at first, but then noticed that the boot procedure had not yet finished entirely.

If I wait another 10 seconds or so, I get the usual login prompt on tty1 thru tty6.
tty7 has the "Checking for new hardware" and is locked, tty8 thru tty11 my graphical screens (when using several user logins simultaneously), and tty12 the system log (if I'm not mistaken).

Torsten

[kjpetrie]

Thanks. I started playing around with shutting down processes and thought I'd found a pointer, but I now realise the problem has gone away with my last upgrade. Maybe it was already solved in the repo when I posted my first question!

The seventh screen certainly looks as if something is hanging, but it's not being able to get into the terminals if the GUI went down that bothered me most.