> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:06:20 -0500
> From: zlinux...@wowway.com
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a
> text console under some conditions
>
> On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:11:02 -0500 (EST), Frank McCormick wrote:
> > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:01:17 +0000, Tom Furie <t...@furie.org.uk> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:02:30PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I have been having trouble lately with losing access to my
> >>> graphical console. The basic symptom is that I am in the
> >>> graphical console, I switch to a text console via Ctrl+Alt+F1, do
> >>> some stuff in the text console, then when I attempt to switch
>
> >> Have you checked Alt+F8, Alt+F9, possibly even beyond? On one of my
> >> systems, for reasons that are still unclear to me, GDM occasionally
> >> runs somewhere between tty8-10 after I've logged in and out a few
> >> times. I can only guess it's restarting before it's fully stopped.
>
> > Same thing here - running Debian testing...and after switching
> > back and forth a few times GDM ends up on tty8 instead of 7.
>
> I must confess I never even thought to check that. The next time
> it happens, I'll give it a try. Have either of you come up with
> a consistent scenario that always reproduces the failure?
Not consistently, but the issue exists on my ubuntu installed laptop as well.
> explicitly stopping and restarting the X server or the GDM daemon.
> I'm just switching back and forth between a text console and the
> graphical console. Has either of you filed a bug report?
No, but if one could provided insight to where exactly the fault was (what
causes the graphical console number to change or become unresponsive, it would
help.
> The only reason I haven't asked about this before is that I was
> hoping to come up with a consistent failure scenario. There's
> nothing worse than a bug that can't be reproduced on demand.
I agree with you on that.
>
>
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