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Feb 7, 2019 at 9:07 comment added szx Same problem as OP in Ubuntu 18.10, chv 0t says no such device, w shows that my gnome TTY is :0
Mar 21, 2018 at 13:01 comment added Matthew Setter This definitely helped out. I'm not sure why Ctrl+Alt+F7 no longer works to get back to the GUI vt, like it always used to. Thanks for the answer that's helped me sort myself out.
Nov 21, 2017 at 19:24 comment added dragon788 You may not need to run this as root if you use gdm where it starts a root-less display session as the user. In that case tty2 appears to be allocated for the user with tty7 for the gdm owned login window. If you switch to tty7 you have to login again and then it will push you back over to tty2 automatically, or you can simply switch to tty2 yourself.
Nov 7, 2016 at 2:16 comment added geek1011 You also need to run this as root
Oct 27, 2011 at 6:58 comment added blee @MaxMackie that should result in an error, since x server is already running.
Oct 27, 2011 at 5:50 comment added nopcorn Could he have used startx as well? Just wondering.
Oct 27, 2011 at 1:32 vote accept netvope
Oct 27, 2011 at 0:35 history answered Shawn J. Goff CC BY-SA 3.0