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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 15:44:34 -0500
From: Leo Papandreou <leo@talcom.net>
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Subject: Re: stuck console
References: <199803311457.IAA26168@PeeCee.tbe.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980402184230.20147B-100000@kott.my.domain>
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On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 06:44:51PM -0500, David Kott wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, David Kelly wrote:
> 
> > On exit from X last night my vty console did not recover. Normally I login 
> > via vty0 and launch startx. Am running the XF86_Mach64 server.
> > 
> > Today, I telent'ed in from another system and launched startx. So for now 
> > I'm functioning without having to reboot. Alt-F[1-4] do nothing. The 
> > Scroll Lock key does nothing. Any way to reset the text console?
> > 

Terminal lockups have happened to me on every version since 2.1
X or no X. I've always telneted in from another machine and run
setcon to regain control.

See http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/software.html

*Very* useful little program.


> > PeeCee: {1003} uptime
> >  8:53AM  up 53 days, 22 hrs, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
> > PeeCee: {1004} uname -a
> > FreeBSD PeeCee.tbe.com 2.2.5-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE #0: Thu Feb  5 09:24:45 CST 1998     root@PeeCee.tbe.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/PEECEE  i386
> > PeeCee: {1005} 
> > 
> 
> I can repeatedly lock up my virtual terminals by attempting to switch to
> them WHILE XFree86 is in the process of shutting down.  Is this what you
> did?  I have not found a way to recover from this, and have always had to
> reboot.  I just avoid the problem now by NOT changing terminals whilst
> XFree is shutting down.
> 
> 
> 									-d
> 
> 
> 
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