[Bug 1725954] Re: It is hard and nonintuitive to switch to console ttys on Ubuntu 17.10

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[Bug 1725954] Re: It is hard and nonintuitive to switch to console ttys on Ubuntu 17.10

If you are not seeing your tty's but only a frozen screen you could try this solution. It worked for me: https://askubuntu.com/questions/162535/why-does-switching-to-the-tty-give-me-a-blank-screen -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1725954] Re: It is hard and nonintuitive to switch to console ttys on Ubuntu 17.10

I have a more positive impression about 17.10 in general and I am seeing improvement for my situation. Since an update today I can see the tty's again when fully booted and pressing ctrl-alt-f2 but still unable to see them during slow boot. dpkg.log: 2017-11-18 09:28:54 upgrade

[Bug 1725954] Re: It is hard and nonintuitive to switch to console ttys on Ubuntu 17.10

The problem is not only that.. from GUI, ctrl+alt+f3 brings up tty3 from tty3, alt+f4...f5f..f6 bring up tty4 tty 5 tty6 If I wat to see what is on tty1 there seems to be no way! Stupid. I hate 17.10 every day more. Damn me. I should have never "upgraded". Oh.. and WIFI does not work at all in

[Bug 1725954] Re: It is hard and nonintuitive to switch to console ttys on Ubuntu 17.10

I am seeing tty's in the process list in gnome terminal but I can't access them. The screen just freezes. $ ps waux | grep tty3 root 2606 0.0 0.0 16128 2008 tty3 Ss+ 18:25 0:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty3 linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1725954] Re: It is hard and nonintuitive to switch to console ttys on Ubuntu 17.10

I also have no tty's to check what is happening during boot, is this the same issue or should I file another bug? My laptop was doing something for 5 minutes but I couldn't check the text modus by pressing ctrl-alt-F1 or any other FN. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1725954] Re: It is hard and nonintuitive to switch to console ttys on Ubuntu 17.10

Turns out this is the default for gdm. According to this blog post: http://rubereality.com/2012/11/08/change-the-vt-setup-with-gdm-3-6-1-and-systemd/ (Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20141228051646/http://rubereality.com/2012/11/08/change-the-vt-setup-with-gdm-3-6-1-and-systemd/ )

[Bug 1725954] Re: It is hard and nonintuitive to switch to console ttys on Ubuntu 17.10

The fact that Ctrl-Alt-F1 now brings up the login screen is documented: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseNotes#Ubuntu_Desktop "GDM has replaced LightDM as the default display manager. The login screen now uses virtual terminal 1 instead of virtual terminal 7." (Ctrl-Alt-F1 switches

[Bug 1725954] Re: It is hard and nonintuitive to switch to console ttys on Ubuntu 17.10

I can confirm this and my screen freezes when pressing (same behaviour up to ) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1725954 Title: It is hard and nonintuitive

[Bug 1725954] Re: It is hard and nonintuitive to switch to console ttys on Ubuntu 17.10

for me, when I make ctrl alt f3, the screen freezes and I have to make an alt f1 to return to the session -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1725954 Title: It is hard and nonintuitive to

[Bug 1725954] Re: It is hard and nonintuitive to switch to console ttys on Ubuntu 17.10

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: slick-greeter (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1725954