Reproducible on 18.04.3 LTS on a t460s Thinkpad. (Yes, enable function- lock, or remember to press Fn + ctrl + alt + f3)
Do a normal login and press CTRL-ALT-F1. Now it switches to a virtual console showing the boot log. Alas there is no way to switch back to any other virtual console!! Reboot here is the only option. Do a normal login and press CTRL-ALT-F1. Now it switches to a virtual console with a login prompt. Nice. Do not press ALT-F1 or you will end up in the boot log again...reboot. Press ALT-F2 to get back to the graphical console. Then I removed the comments for the two lines: NAutoVTs=6 ReserveVT=6 in the file /etc/systemd/logind.conf and rebooted. Then it started to work better. F1 seems to be the gdm graphical login prompt. F2 has the graphical desktop. F3 is the first virtual console terminal. I do not know where to boot log went... However wait after pressing the CTRL-ALT-Fx and ALT-Fx keys when switching consoles. If I switch between the consoles too fast, them the X-process sometimes crashes and you get the login screen again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758512 Title: No virtual terminals (CTRL+ALT+F?) when no user logged in; erratic behaviour when user logged in. Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: As of today's 18.04 version, on a dell xps-13 (the old i7-4500U one), to reproduce: - boot Ubuntu - Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 (or F3 or...) Expected behaviour: virtual console should appear with login prompt. Actual behaviour: nothing happens. When a user is logged in, Ctrl+Alt+F3 switches to terminal tty3... However, hitting first Ctrl+Alt+F1 and, subsequently, hitting Ctrl+Alt+F3 does not show tty3, and remains at the graphical login screen but keyboard and mouse are unresponsive until either Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Ctrl+Alt+F? are pressed, being ? the virtual terminal the ubuntu session is running at. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gdm3 3.27.92-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-12.13-generic 4.15.7 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Mar 24 10:11:26 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-05 (1418 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gdm3 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-03-22 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1758512/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
