Comment 13 for bug 787821

Thanks for sending that information.

Your bug description is very clear and describes an issue we know very well, but no one else has reported this with Ubuntu 11.04 and I don't know of any remaining reason why it should occur. The most likely explanation is that you have some software installed which is altering the VT settings out from underneath the X server.

Do you have any local upstart jobs installed that use the 'console owner' option? Do you have any local init scripts that might be changing the console settings? For instance, a previous version of the apache package during a development cycle had a bug where it tried to take over the console for passphrase prompting, resulting in crashes like this.