Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:21:48 -0500 (EST) From: Dexnation Holodream <dex@wankers.net> To: David Kelly <dkelly@nebula.tbe.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stuck console Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331112132.29885Q-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199803311555.JAA00331@PeeCee.tbe.com>
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ok...you need to send init a HUP...that should fix it. -Jon On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, David Kelly wrote: > Dexnation Holodream writes: > > did you try CTRL-ALT [1-4]??? > > > > that's what I always have to use. > > Only when in X. Alt-F[1-4] beeps at the console. Add a Ctrl to that and > still get the beep. Guess the problem is moot now as I was pounding key > sequences and didn't think before pounding Ctrl-Alt-Delete. System > politely shutdown and rebooted just like it was supposed to. > > Maybe it wasn't apparent in my posting that I had a text display, the X > display was gone. Was able to startx via telnet from another system. > > Forgot to add before, used "ps -aux" to scan all the processes guessing > somebody still had control of the console. Found nothing. Altho it > *shouldn't* have mattered because I couldn't get to any of my (3) getty's > running on vty's (yes, a getty was running on the console I used to > startx, as I had logged off it). "killall getty" respawned the vty getty's > and didn't help. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nebula.tbe.com > ======================================================================== > Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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