F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Thu Jan 22 11:31:59 UTC 2009


Dan Horák píše v Čt 22. 01. 2009 v 10:44 +0100:
> Casey Dahlin píše v St 21. 01. 2009 v 22:24 -0500:
> > Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:22:05PM -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Uhh..no?
> > >>     
> > >
> > > Doesn't work on my F10 box...
> > >
> > > 		-ben
> > >   
> > Ctrl+Alt+F1 no longer works (or rather, it brings up the X server 
> > instead of Ctrl+Alt+F7). F2-6 should be fine.
> > 
> > If not, file a bug.
> 
> The F2-6 are blocked when you have getty running on vt1
> (/etc/event.d/tty1 is the same tty[2-6]) and Xorg server runs on vt1 too
> (gdm runs with --force-active-vt)
> Then there are messages like "unable to switch vt" in /var/log/Xorg.log

The behaviour above requires manual editing of at
least /etc/event.d/tty1, it should not happen in default setups.


		Dan





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