[ale] tty1 vs tty2,3,4,etc

[Björn Gustafsson]

On my ubuntu system, `lsof -p 1' shows init attached to /dev/console
(which is says is "deleted"). You may find that /dev/console is linked
to (or the same as) /dev/tty1 in Fedora.

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> yeah, but X is not even installed on this system.
>
> Hmm. Wondering if some "remnants" are lurking as there is a gdm binary but
> it's not started (runlevel 3)
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/08/2010 10:34 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> > what is special about tty1? In Fedora 12 I have turned on Magic SysRq.
>> > This allows me to press alt-sysrq-k and slaughter everything running on
>> > a tty. Works fine for tty2+ but causes a system panic and hard crash on
>> > tty1.
>> >
>> > Is init hard bound to tty1?
>>
>> Interesting. Doesn't X run on tty1 in Fedora 12?
>>
>> --
>> All the best,
>> Brian Pitts

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Björn Gustafsson