Hardy: text consoles, ctrl+alt+Fx not working

[Florian Schröck]

I use Ubuntu hardy with the latest patches. i messed around with my nvidia drives and after a reboot i got the bulletproof x rescue display. i didn't need it, because i just had to overwrite the xorg.conf with an older one. i tried to switch to the 1st text console with ctr+alt+F1 but then the screen just goes blank. then every ctr+alt+Fxx combination doesn't work anymore, i don't even get the screen from bulletproof x back. i thought maybe only the display is blocked but after pressing ctrl+alt+F1 again and blindly login in i tried to run some commands but this didn't work.

i had to restart the whole system with ctrl+alt+delete and start the recovery single mode, replace my xorg.conf, reboot -> works fine. but this is really annoying and i can reproduce it. attached is the log file when bulletproof x was running

I'm available for further investigations.
[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29c0] (rev 02)
     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:8276]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTX] [10de:0191] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:8233]

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi mael-reverted,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

bulletproof-x does nothing which could affect the virtual terminals (it's a very trivial set of bash scripts), so my guess is that it's something to do with your video driver or the kernel.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi Florian,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.