[olug] startx / init 5 hangs, ctrl-alt Fx doesn't work

[Rob Townley]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Rob Townley wrote:
>>
>> On a Fedora 10 box in which i have Sugar, gnome, and KDE installed.
>> And tried to change the gui keybindings to be more useful,
>> startx and init5 hangs with the dots spinning around the mouse pointer.
>>
>> Unfortunately, sshd must not be enabled and attempting to get to a
>> ctrl-alt Fx virtual terminal fails.
>
> Note, F-10 switched X from vt7 to vt1, so CNTL-ALT-F1 in particular
> functions differently.
>
> Otherwise, what video hw/driver is in use here?  (I can note that recent
> nvidia drivers fail spectacularly, especially combined with kde).
>
> -- Rex
>

yes, the qwerky tty1 for X is well qwerky.
i changed the inittab a while ago, so i can boot up and logon as root.
But after logging in, all of the following disable the keyboard and
mouse on the console and X seems to hang.


gdm  (hangs with blue circling dots around unmoveable mouse pointer)
gdm --debug
kdm (starts kde, but can't use mouse or keyboard on console any longer)

ctrl-alt+F2 or F3 or Fx  --->  nothing
ctrl-alt+backspace --> nothing
ctrl-alt+del             --> nothing
caps lock              --> no change in LED
num lock               --> no change in LED