I’m installing 11.1 on an 64-bit HP.
I can log in, but the nvidia driver needs to be updated.
If I switch to a virtual console by hitting ctrl-shift-F1, I get a screen with the boot log:
Starting HAL daemon done
Starting jexec services done
But I don’t get a shell prompt.
ctrl-shift-F2 gives me just an underscore, but no prompt.
Hitting Ctrl-alt-backspace eventually gets me to the boot log screen, but still no shell prompt.
How can I get the shell prompt for the virtual consoles?
What happens when you hit enter on the screen with the boot log? If you do an Alt-F2, Alt-F3 or Alt-F4 do you get a login prompt?
I’m not running oS11.1 at the moment, so I’m not sure if this changed between oS11 and oS11.1.
You should not get a shelll prompt, but a log in prompt.
When that is what you mean to say, then check if the getty processes are running (this is from 10.3):
henk@boven:~> ps -ef|grep tty
root 2986 2964 1 10:33 tty7 00:00:46 /usr/bin/Xorg -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-4tW91W
root 3914 1 0 10:33 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1
root 3919 1 0 10:33 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
root 3920 1 0 10:33 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
root 3921 1 0 10:33 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
root 3922 1 0 10:33 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
root 3923 1 0 10:33 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
henk 5545 5535 0 11:18 pts/2 00:00:00 grep tty
henk@boven:~>
I found this one on the forums: Mingetty not running - no virtual terminals - openSUSE Forums
May be it helps.
Firstly I switch using CNTRL-ALT-F1 not CNTRL-SHIFT. CNTRL-ALT-10 gives the log. Perhaps your hardware doesn’t give you the standard keyboard with an ALT key.
You can boot into runlevel 3, by adding a 3 on boot, or you can as root run “init 3” which will leave graphical user mode.