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Virtual tty screen empty

Asked by Alex

I think this has been an issue since I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04, but when I try to access tty with ctrl-alt-f1 (through f6), I just get a blank screen, no command prompt or anything. Any suggestions? I would provide more details, but I'm not really sure what system information would be most pertinent. No proprietary graphics drivers; my graphics driver is the i915.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What did you upgrade from please?

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Alex (adlinds3) said : 		#2

14.04

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

Are the getty processes running?

What is the output of

ps ax | grep tty

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Alex (adlinds3) said : 		#4

 1886 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty1 linux
 6805 pts/18 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto tty
12831 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty2 linux
12838 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty6 linux
30241 tty7 Ssl+ 14:40 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

Interesting.
getty processes are (only) running for tty1, tty2 and tty6.
You should see a login prompt on these.
I have no idea why tty3, tty4 and tty5 can be missing.
Is there anything in the system logs?

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Alex (adlinds3) said : 		#6

I was able to solve my problem by following the directions here: http://askubuntu.com/a/162596/384832