On Sat, 30 Dec 2017, MR ZenWiz wrote:
I ran into this recently on my laptop and wonder if anyone else has seen it.
I run Xubuntu 16.04 LTS on all my systems. On my HP8740w laptop, occasionally when I do something (I'll explain below), the cursor focus on my terminal windows gets lost and I can't type anything in the terminal windows.
The vanishing cursor/malfunctioning terminals is also an issue with the Unix console text terminals when using Ctl-Alt-F1 to -F6
The F1 to F6 console text terminals would appear, but there is no cursor, and you can not type anything into the terminal. Ctl-Alt-F7 would return to X window manager and X-terms in the graphical session seemed to still work.
After recent 14 LTS updates, the Ctl-Alt-F1 to -F6 switch results in the screen displaying ONLY the full-screen 'boot splash' background image at F1-F6. That is, no text terminals are there AT ALL! Ctl-Alt-F7 returns to the window manager.
Once this happens, the only recourse is to reboot the machine to regain sane operation.
I've been unable to reliably find what causes the text terminals to become unresponsive, or the background graphics image to replace them. It seems to happens pretty much at random, though switching among terminals does *seem* to be a factor.
It started with later updates to 14-LTS series with the switch to systemd <spit>. Since systemd supposedly usurped the usual text terminal functionality into itself, I suspect that it's (yet another) systemd problem.
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