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On 27/10/2020 20:09, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:05:28AM -0400, Jack wrote |
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>> From one of your earlier posts, it looks like tty0-tty9 all exist. My |
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>> guess is that getty was launched on all of them. Since that is owned |
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>> by root (until someone logs in) you certainly don't have permission |
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>> to use it for X. I'm not sure where the list of vts on which to spawn |
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>> getty is controlled, but that's what I'd look for. |
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> On my non-systemd machine, it's /etc/inittab, with the lines below the |
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> comment line... |
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> # TERMINALS |
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I've got memories that you should launch getty on 1 to 6, and I don't |
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know whether you declare how many exist, but you tell X to grab the next |
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available. |
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I'm pretty certain if I do a <ctrl><alt><F8> and I haven't launched a |
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second user, it just comes up with a blank screen, not a login prompt. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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