no tty console in Gutsy

Bug #152089 reported by satkata
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Bug Description

Hi,

I'm using Gutsy Beta with all updates/upgrades till now and I still can't switch to console with CRTL+ALT+F1.
I mean, it switches, but I am getting a black screen with a blinking cursor on the top-left of the screen and nothing further happenes.
In the most cases I can switch back to X with ALT+F7, but not always and I have to reboot with CRTL+ALT+DELETE, so that I can work again, it is really annoying.
And yes, I do have getty processes on the tty1-3, I have disabled the rest three, back under Feisty, because I don't need them.

I habe tried reinstalling the "console-setup", "console-tools" packages, as someone in ubuntuforums.org had suggested, but it didn't help too.

I really don't know, what to do or how can I help you, because I don't know what information to provide.

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satkata (satkata-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Hi,

I just want to say, that after following these instructions from the ubuntuforums.org, I have my console again. :)
on my virtual pc installation i fixed the problem with the following
steps:

1. sudo vi /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and add fbcon and vesafb

so my /etc/initramfs-tools/modules looks like:

fbcon
vesafb

2. sudo update-initramfs -u

3. sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer

change the line "blacklist vesafb" to "# blacklist vesafb"

4. reboot and everything is fine

And indeed, everything is working now as before my upgrade to gutsy, except my micro (sound capture, gconf pipeline problem), but that is another issue and is already been reported.

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Albert Damen (albrt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 129910, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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