Public bug reported:
After installing Feisty Herd-5 Desktop on an AMD64 box, I didn't have a
keyboard or display connected during boot. When I did later connect the
keyboard and video, I did get the GNOME desktop (albeit 800x600), but
none of the virtual consoles 1-6, nor 8 (Ctrl-Alt-F1 through Ctrl-
Alt-F6, and Ctrl-Alt-F8) would display any text.
The consoles appeared to respond to keyboard input, because Ctrl-Alt-Del
restarted the system, but I never saw any text displayed.
I then rebooted again without keyboard and monitor and got the same
results. To confirm, I tried several more times. In doing so, I
noticed that if I reconnected the keyboard and display too soon, the
GNOME desktop was not yet visible and appeared to still be loading
(taking much longer than when started with keyboard and display
connected). However, I could force a reset of X (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace)
and the GNOME desktop would display just fine. Either way, virtual
consoles (1-6, and 8) were still blank no matter what I did.
I could get the same results using the Herd-5 LiveCD as well on this
AMD64 system (both i386 and AMD64 LiveCDs) .
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Herd-5 Desktop AMD64
H/W:
- Motherboard: ASUS A8V Deluxe
- CPU: AMD Athlon64 3000+
- Video: PowerColor ATI Radeon 6400XT
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Problem when headless during boot
https://launchpad.net/bugs/89621
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