tty oddness since upgrade to Fedora Core 6

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Oct 28 00:54:45 UTC 2006


Eric Mader wrote:
> Elaine Normandy wrote:
>> Yesterday, I upgraded my desktop to Fedora Core 6:  an upgrade, not a 
>> clean install.  Since then, when rebooting, I find that at the end of 
>> the boot sequence I am looking at one of the text tty's, not the gdm 
>> screen.  I can get to the gdm screen by pressing Alt-F7.  Is there a 
>> way that I can boot directly to the gdm screen.  I am in runlevel 5, 
>> and Xorg and gdm are running, I just don't see them until I hit Alt-F7.
>>
> 
> I'm seeing the same thing. I just booted today and ended up in the gdm 
> screen. I though perhaps one of the updates I installed yesterday fixed 
> the problem, so I tried rebooting a couple of times to see if the 
> problem really was fixed. The next time I also got the gdm screen. The 
> third time, I got tty1. Perhaps it's some sort of a timing problem?
> 

rhgb in rawhide got a update to quit before gdm starts since that 
results in VT switches.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211848

I have added a comment to push a update for FC6 too. To confirm this try 
disabling rhgb by removing the option in /etc/grub.conf.

Rahul




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