[HELP] Can't go into any terminal

[JhonQ]

hi, if I press "ctrl+alt+f1" I only get a black screnn. What's that? where's the terminal?.
Kubuntu Gutsy, nvidia fx 5200 driver mounted by ENVY. Compiz-fusion working.

[SheeEttin]

Re: [HELP] Can't go into any terminal

What happens if you hit enter?
How about if you hit Ctrl+Alt+F2..F6?

[brasslover]

Re: [HELP] Can't go into any terminal

I had this issue about three weeks ago on one of my machines. I have no idea how it happened, but my tty definitions had disappeared in /etc/event.d

Luckily, I have another machine that I was able to copy the appropriate files from once I figured out the issue. Can you get to an xterm somehow via Konsole or yaKuake? If so try running the following and see what you get:

 ls -l /etc/event.d

For reference, here is what I get on my system when I run that command:

$ ls -l /etc/event.d
total 72
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 260 2007-09-16 21:13 control-alt-delete
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 552 2007-09-16 21:13 rc0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 342 2007-09-16 21:13 rc1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 403 2007-09-16 21:13 rc2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 403 2007-09-16 21:13 rc3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 403 2007-09-16 21:13 rc4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 403 2007-09-16 21:13 rc5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 422 2007-09-16 21:13 rc6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 485 2007-09-16 21:13 rc-default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 392 2007-09-16 21:13 rcS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 461 2007-09-16 21:13 rcS-sulogin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 558 2007-09-16 21:13 sulogin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 302 2007-11-07 02:45 tty1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 2007-11-07 02:45 tty2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 2007-11-07 02:45 tty3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 2007-11-07 02:45 tty4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 2007-11-07 02:45 tty5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 2007-11-07 02:45 tty6