[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#712504: Switching to pseudo-terminal (ctrl+F1) doesn't give text login, and after that, graphic screen is divided vertically

[Stéphane Guedon]

Package: base
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
When suffering little bugs, or in need for a commonad line, I commonly switch 
to pseudo terminal by typing Ctrl + Fn. On any other computer I use, it simply 
give you text login, then command line.
Currently, for this time, when switching to a pseudo terminal, the screen stay 
black. If I come back to the graphic screen (Ctrl + F7), I have the graphic 
divided vertically.
Actually, I looks like the windows screen has moved. So, the graphic window is 
still available, I can make few things, like launching graphic software or 
rebooting the computer, but nothing solves it.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
As said, the only way I found to solve it, was simply to reboot the computer 
with the correct command or button.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
I would expect to have a command line, and an usual graphic screen.

An image of the screen divided is attached to the mail.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash