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On my Ubuntu 22.04 installation, I am able to switch virtual consoles with ctrl-alt-F1/F2/... like normal. F7 shows the GUI, also as expected. However, none of the consoles F1-F6 show a shell or login prompt. They all just show the last messages from the kernel on boot. There is no cursor or any indication of interactivity. I have no way to log in.

How can I fix this issue and use the text-mode virtual consoles?

Other possibly useful info:

  • This is an upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04
  • I have an nVidia 3060 card, and I'm running the official nVidia driver. Supposedly, using the official driver can cause issues with vt's, but I have run the mitigation steps that I found, namely to uncomment GRUB_TERMINAL and GRUB_GFXMODE in /etc/default/grub and then reload grub. Those changes had no discernible effect.
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I solved this my adding "nomodeset" to my linux default options line in /etc/default/grub, like so:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

Then run update-grub to load that configuration.

Haydentech
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