Samuel,
Thanks for the hint.
I ran both your suggested commands: the lsof /dev/tty1 showed multiple entries for
"plymouthd"... NONE for /dev/console.
1 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
2 plymouthd 8798 root 7u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
3 plymouthd 8798 root 10u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
4 plymouthd 8798 root 15u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
5 plymouthd 8798 root 16u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
6 plymouthd 8798 root 17u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
7 plymouthd 8798 root 18u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
8 plymouthd 8798 root 21u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
9 plymouthd 8798 root 22u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
10 plymouthd 8798 root 24u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
11 plymouthd 8798 root 30u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
12 plymouthd 8798 root 32u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
13 plymouthd 8798 root 33u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
14 plymouthd 8798 root 35u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
15 plymouthd 8798 root 52u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
16 plymouthd 8798 root 54u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
17 plymouthd 8798 root 55u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
18 agetty 56697 root 0u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
19 agetty 56697 root 1u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
20 agetty 56697 root 2u CHR 4,1 0t0 3091 /dev/tty1
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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:02:47 -0800
From: Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
Subject: Re: booting .iso image from
fedoraproject.org
To: test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
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On 2/16/20 10:22 PM, George R Goffe via test wrote:
I've switched to FC33 here and am seeing the same problems except
that I've noticed that it's on TTY1 ONLY. It's like the signals from the
keyboard to the tty are mixed up. TTY2-6 appear to be working correctly. WTF over?
That most likely means that there is some other background program still
listening to tty1 and taking keystrokes.
On another tty, try running "lsof /dev/tty1" and "lsof /dev/console".
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