I have lost my ttys after an upgrade, solved

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
I do not know why, but after a reboot, my tty1 through 6 were all back.
Regards, Willem


On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Willem van der Walt wrote:

> Hi,
> I had to do an upgrade, due to some dependancies when building software.
> I am running Ubuntu and has now moved up to 16.04.
> At first, the thing did not want to boot, but I seem tomhave solved that.
> It now boots to a graphical login screen, I think, as I hear the Ubuntu drums 
> playing.
> When I jump to any console from 1 to 6, I get a blank screen.  Speakup is 
> speeking though.
> I am writing this email after having ssh-ed in from another machine with 
> speech.
> There are some  startup message on tty1, but no login prompt.
> 	I could sign on as root over ssh and can see no gettys running.
> I tried to start one by hand, which got me a login prompt, but as soon as I 
> type a letter, the thing asks for a password.
> Any idees?
> TIA, Willem
>
>
>

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