Public bug reported:
I'll start this bug report with my first disclaimer: I'm filing this
report from a fixed system. The original system that I'm going to
reference has been installed over with the current system I'm filing
this report from. The first install was UEFI, minimal install, not
connected to the internet during installation. Now, I'll continue with
my story.
So, when doing the first install, I realized I had screwed up my
username when doing the install. But you can't do a lot of the
'usermod' commands from the user you're logged in as. Since I was
having to log in as a regular user, and then run 'sudo usermod', it was
stating that the user I was trying to modify was currently logged in.
So I logged out, and then attempted to switch to a tty, as I didn't need
a graphical login for root.
When trying to access virtual TTYs from Ctrl+Alt+F{3,4,5,6}, there were
no terminals to access. I did some googling and didn't find anything
directly related. Most were related to either accessing virtual
terminals, or getting back to a graphical desktop if you mistakenly get
to a vtty. So I took to IRC (#ubuntu on freenode). After someone did a
'!tty' to really rub salt in the wound, someone recommended that I try
uncommenting 'GRUB_TERMINAL=console' and regenerating grub.cfg, I took
them up on the offer.
So I open /etc/default/grub, and scroll down to that line. I
immediately see it says 'grub-pc only'. I knew my install was UEFI, but
since it was a fresh install I ignored the warning and did it anyway.
Uncommented GRUB_TERMINAL=console did a 'sudo update-grub'. I went down
for a reboot...and my system did not boot again. I considered chrooting
and fixing it, but I thought it may be less annoying to just re-install.
However, this time I elected to do a full install while connected to
wifi. After booting up the first time, I try switch over to a TTY and
*POOF!*, I have ttys now.
So I'm not sure if my install the first time was simply busted, or the
difference of doing a minimal install vs a full install is what caused
my vtty issue. But anyway. Thought I'd open a bug.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: gdm3 3.34.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-19.20-generic 5.3.1
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Nov 3 11:06:00 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-03 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gdm3 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug eoan
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