1. installed Phoebe on IBM x305 2. selections during firstboot: forward forward, yes forward forward, cancel 3. did NOT login. switch to vc1. 4. switch back to vc 7 result: only an arrow appeared on a black screen in vc7. gui had moved to vc8.
It happened to me too, but I couldn't reproduce it again after I started to use the system.
I can reproduce it. Should be fixed in firstboot-1.0.3-5. QA, please verify.
Looks like things are all taken care of in firstboot-1.0.3-5.
Wendy Hung at IBM reports that she can still reproduce the problem with firstboot-1.0.3-5.
I think the problem is that firstboot is sometimes exiting before the X server has finished dying off. Then when GDM tries to start it's X server, it appears that VC7 is already in use, so it starts its server on VC8. I've added a 1 second sleep that should give the X server time to die before firstboot exits. It's not the cleanest way to do it, but it should work. See if she can duplicate the problem with firstboot-1.0.4-6