Hi everyone,
I have been trying to resolve this issue for some time. A description and my attempts follow.
Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F{1…7} works correctly for tty1 (login manager) and tty2 (awesome-wm or gnome).
However, for any other tty, a black screen shows up with no info.
This is troublesome, as I am forced to boot from a live usb and decrypt my luks drive manually every time my configuration breaks (which luckily happened only once).
Upon reading this thread, I tried chvt [n], which works the same way as the Ctrl+alt+F[n] key binding, yielding no operable console.
Initially, the output of systemctl list-units | grep tty was merely:
system-getty.slice loaded active active Slice /system/getty
getty.target loaded active active Login Prompts
However, after running: systemctl enable getty@tty{1..7}, the same command return the following lines, in addition to the previous ones:
getty@tty2.service loaded active running Getty on tty2
getty@tty3.service loaded active running Getty on tty3
getty@tty4.service loaded active running Getty on tty4
getty@tty5.service loaded active running Getty on tty5
getty@tty6.service loaded active running Getty on tty6
getty@tty7.service loaded active running Getty on tty7
After rebooting, tty’s still don’t work. However, the DE/WM is now on tty8 (as I can return to it through the Ctrl+Alt+F8 key binding). Additionally, systemctl status getty@tty8 shows the service as being “disabled”.
I have also tried un-commenting the line: NAutoVTs=6 in /etc/systemd/logind.conf, to no avail.
I have also looked at the similar threads: Virtual Consoles not Working and Why Does the Ctrl+Alt+F1…F6 Not, none of which seemed to add valuable information.
I can swiftly provide more info to anyone willing to help. Thank you in advance.