Quoting Hendrik Boom on 2011-07-01 20:47: > And I can't use cntl-alt-F1 to get a text console, because all I get is a > blank black screen. Is gdm taking over the text consoles and disallowing > them? How do I get my text consoles back so I can proceed with the rest > of the upgrade?
Try ctrl+alt+Fn, for n = 2..6. How many lines of the form N:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 ttyN do you have in your /etc/inittab? -- _ Brian Ryans 8B2A 54C4 E275 8CFD 8A7D 5D0B 0AD0 B014 C112 13D0 . ( ) ICQ 43190205 | Mail/Jabber/Yahoo/MSN: brianlry...@gmail.com ..: X ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML mail and v-cards: asciiribbon.org / \ DRM: encryption which assumes Bob is also Eve and Mallory.
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