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