Can't switch TTY's in FC2

[joshtech]

Hello All, just kinda stumpt, just reinstalled FC2 on my webserver and I'm just trying to swap to a different console with Ctrl+Alt+F2 or F3....

it appears that nothing happens, I am in init5 now so I am not sure why it's not working,
any suggestions?

[sailor]

Do you mean that you can go to ctrl+alt+F1 and get a console but it will not change to the other 5 consoles?
It will not give any indication that it has changed as you move between consoles....the only way I can tell if it changes is when I login to one then change to another...I will have to login again...

[joshtech]

Do you mean that you can go to ctrl+alt+F1 and get a console but it will not change to the other 5 consoles?
It will not give any indication that it has changed as you move between consoles....the only way I can tell if it changes is when I login to one then change to another...I will have to login again...

no sorry, I can't change to any consoles, Ctrl+alt+F1 doesn't work either

[sailor]

have you looked in your /etc/initab file? Maybe something altered it. It should look something like this:
id:5:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

[joshtech]

have you looked in your /etc/initab file? Maybe something altered it. It should look something like this:
id:5:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

That is exactly what is in there... not sure what the heck has happened... I just did a fresh install of FC2
then I did the updates but it was doing this even with the default config...

this is what I see in the syslogs when I try to get to those consoles

ul 6 20:54:12 JOSHTECHFC2 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 240
Jul 6 20:54:12 JOSHTECHFC2 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 240
Jul 6 20:54:13 JOSHTECHFC2 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 241
Jul 6 20:54:13 JOSHTECHFC2 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 241
Jul 6 20:54:13 JOSHTECHFC2 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 240

[sailor]

hmmm...do you have a unusual keyboard? with special keys? have you re-maped the keyboard? I have searched through all my references / web and not found anything....I have no idea what is going on...I wonder if it has anything to do the "keytables" ...I am looking into this...

[harms]

I have also seen this problem on FC2. It used to work on FC1, but I switched keyboard at the same time that I went to FC2. I'll experiment a bit.

The new keyboard is USB, and, yes, it does have some fancy non-standard "multimedia" keys, but I don't see how that should matter. And my FC2 installation is a very standard desktop variant.

--
Kristian Harms

[sailor]

in articles I have read there is a problem with usb keyboards...as welll as some weirdness with multimedia boards..
I continue to look for solutions ....if you have a standard keyboard try it and see if the problem stops...that way we can zero in on the problem....
in another thead some mentioned using "acme" to utilize multimedia boards fully

[usopso]

/etc/securetty > clear the sign # from tty1 (#tty1,#tty2) (tty1) (tty2)
or if you're not RooT,the RooT may have configured it with Bastille!

[joshtech]

/etc/securetty > clear the sign # from tty1 (#tty1,#tty2) (tty1) (tty2)
or if you're not RooT,the RooT may have configured it with Bastille!

checked that, and there are no tty's with a #


I do have a usb keyboard, specificly a logitech Internet Navigator

ummm I just figured it out... as I am writing this LOL the F* keys have other uses when F-Lock is in use, I guess by default FC2 enables the F-lock so FC2 can't recognize the commands
hit the F-Lock key then try switching to a different tty and it works.

/me slaps forehead

[sailor]

heheheh...:p
well I learned a little about keyboards in my searches...glad all worked out...
I guess we can close this thread....woohoo!