unable to switch vt

[Dan Horák]

Hi,

I hope this to be a bug and not a really bad joke. I am completely
unable to switch vt with current rawhide kernel
(2.6.27.4-65.fc10.x86_64) and it works with an older one
(2.6.27.3-27.rc1.fc10.x86_64), there is no reaction on pressing
Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6]

I have
- no graphical boot, console is vesafb
- default runlevel 5
- updated /etc/event.d/tty1 to be same as tty[2-6] as suggested by
wwoods (I want X on vt7)
- I am logged in GNOME

with last kernel from koji

[root at localhost ~]# ps ax | grep gdm
 2596 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
 2657 ?        S      0:00 /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave
--display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1 --force-active-vt
 2658 ?        Ss     0:05 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nr -verbose
-auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-Ng4bML/database -nolisten tcp vt1

[root at localhost ~]# tail -5 /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Failed to switch consoles (Input/output error)
Failed to switch consoles (Input/output error)
Failed to switch consoles (Input/output error)
(EE) intel(0): First SDVOB output reported failure to sync
Failed to switch consoles (Input/output error)


vs. with older kernel

[root at localhost /]# ps ax | grep gdm
 2598 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
 2658 ?        S      0:00 /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave
--display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1
 2659 tty7     Ss+    0:05 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose
-auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-K8iWt5/database -nolisten tcp

and no errors in Xorg.log


snippet from grub.conf:

title Fedora Rawhide
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.3-27.rc1.fc10.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/Linux/Rawhide vga=792
        initrd /initrd-2.6.27.3-27.rc1.fc10.x86_64.img
title Fedora Rawhide last kernel
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.4-65.fc10.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/Linux/Rawhide vga=792
        initrd /initrd-2.6.27.4-65.fc10.x86_64.img


		Dan