What is your default runlevel. It should be 2 in normal mode. You could find it from the command "runlevel". Anyway, just see your /etc/inittab and make sure that the required gettys are there.
For my debian squeeze system, these are the relevant lines. # Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System, # so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X. # 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/l2od0bf7b0b1004280930i76227e0y4665780d116ed...@mail.gmail.com
