Virtual Consoles disabled REVISITED

Back a while ago, Bill Marcum wrote: 
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:13:30 -0500, David A. Cobb 
  <superbiskit@xxxxxxx> wrote:
  
Running UBUNTU Hoary, GNOME 2.10.0.

Since a fairly recent update, I find I no longer have LOGIN running on 
the lower Virtual Consoles.  If I switch out, all I have is a blank 
screen (or the last screen-full of boot output).  Clearly I got 
something mis-configured. 
    
The problem may be your video driver.  If you have an Nvidia or ATI 
video card, you might need proprietary drivers from the Nvidia or ATI 
web sites.
I do, indeed, have an nVidia card.  However, I can't see how that could affect the virtual consoles.  If I couldn't switch out of X and back in, I would suspect the video driver.

I took a second look, first at /etc/inittab, then at the VC1 console, which appears to show boot output.
It appeared that the "rcS" step:

# This is run first except when booting in emergency (-b) mode.
si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
#
was, perhaps, still running.  Possibly some startup script was not completing. 
I also find (from HTOP) that S20P3SCAN was still running -- which seems a mite strange.

To make a long story short, I moved the steps that spawn /sbin/getty so they precede running the /etc/init.d  scripts.

And that did it.  There should probably be some way to ensure that the rc scripts complete normally even if some component cannot complete without error.  Also, I obviously need to look at the P3SCAN init script to see why it doesn't just start a daemon and exit. 

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David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
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