Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 108074
Alternate consoles aren't appearing
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:59 EST
Description of problem: I installed the GA version of RHEL WS on my desktop PC and laptop. On the desktop PC, ctrl-alt-f[123456] doesn't get you to an alternalte terminal console window. Nothing at all happens. Meanwhile on the laptop installed with the same thing it works fine. I tried it from both the login prompter as well as when logged in as root. Didn't make any difference; nothing happens. Kernel 2.4.21-4.ELsmp
this is controlled by the /etc/inittab file actually.... can you compare that file on both machines to make sure it's sane ?
Your keymap isn't correct. What did you choose during installation for this? If you need to get to a vt, you can use this command to get by for now: xmodmap -e "keycode 196 = XF86_Switch_VT1" Then, ctl-alt-f1 will switch to vt1, and ctrl+left arrow a couple times will get you back to X. What we should do is figure out what keymap is correct for your desktop and install that. Unfortunately, I'm not an expert on such subject matter.
Tim, can we close this as WORKSFORME? I haven't seen any other reports of this.
I've not seen other reports of this, and RHEL 3 is EOL. I'm closing this. Feel free to reopen if you can reproduce it.