[GTALUG] Virtual console 1 frozen..

[Michael Galea]

On 2020-10-30 10:00 a.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 06:01:51PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
>> Ctrl-Alt-F1 used to reach a login prompt on the console, but my debian
>> testing based box simply shows the booting process up to the
>> "/dev/sdb1: clean, ..... " message, and is unresponsive.
>>
>> All of the other virtual consoles work as expected, but I would still like
>> to solve the problem.
>> I have inspected journalctl logging during/after the last boot and nothing
>> stands out.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest anything?
> 
> Which display manager do you have installed?
> 
> I see a bug report
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953328 that sddm
> prevents tty1 from having a login prompt.  It has not been fixed since
> it was reported in March for some reason, so likely to affect testing too.
> 
I am using SDDM to launch kde, which is relevant.  My other two 
graphical distributions are running lightdm, which winds up running on 
vt7.  My /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service file details 
launching sddm after tty1 has a getty, so I'm confused as to why I don't 
actually get one.

Oh, read the link you provided! Thanks! Applied fix listed there and I 
have tty01 back!

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Michael Galea