On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:36:20AM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > Directly after boot, during which no VT switch occurred, I > will see the login manager for KDE. When I now switch to the > first console and then ALT-RIGHT through my other consoles up > until vt6 they don't have a getty running just yet (they show > up as empty black screens).
Actually, this is an indication that console-setup has already configured these consoles. As far as I know, there are only two components in a Debian system that open VTs -- getty and console-setup (and X for vt7). If you see a created console without getty, then this console exists only because console-setup has done something to it. If you would repeat this experiment on a system which didn't have console-setup installed, then ALT-RIGHT simply wouldn't work, it wouldn't switch to a console which didn't exist yet. And it would be impossible to see an empty console without getty running on it. Ofcourse, this doesn't explain why the configuration doesn't work -- because something overwrites it or because the configuration is performed too early, while the system is not prepared for it yet. Anton Zinoviev
