Comment 21 for bug 95210

I still have problems here with it (Kubuntu Gutsy on ia32, updated from Feisty, up-to-date as of 9th October 2007).
When I switch to tty*, there's a black screen with a white blinking cursor with no login messages at all. When I use Magic SysRq keys no message is printed on screen. I'm still able to switch to X after that.
The funny part is I'm able to log in in tty1-6, despite having no visual clues about it, and being able to run programs (I logged as root and ran "startx -- :1" and a new X desktop.).

There's a sample of a /etc/event.d/tty* file:
# tty1 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on tty1 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.

start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3
start on runlevel 4
start on runlevel 5

stop on runlevel 0
stop on runlevel 1
stop on runlevel 6

respawn
exec /sbin/getty 38400 tty1