Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:42:23 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: gummibear@we.mediaone.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deadd VTTY2 - How can I Restart It? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990626171759.14320K-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990626145100.0079cb50@we.mediaone.net>
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On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 gummibear@we.mediaone.net wrote:
>
> Hey all!
>
> Okay, so my 14 month old son (Daemon) likes to climb up on chairs and
> stuff. He also likes banging on keyboards. So the boy climbed up on my
> computer chair started banging away at the login prompt when I wasn't looking.
>
> When I went to stop him from his joyfull keyboard banging, I noticed the
> screen was completely black. Nothing. I switched to vtty0 and that was
> okay, then I switched to vtty1 and that was okay, but vtty2 was dead.
>
> Well now I'm stumped, I don't know how to fix it without rebooting the
> machine. I have 25 days of uptime (not like that's alot, but everytime I
> try to go for longer than a month something happens - power outage, pulled
> electrical cord, etc) so I want to keep it going.
>
> I tried running 'ps' as root on vtty0 to see what was going on. Usually,
> there's two getty's running for the other two vtty's. Right? Well here's
> my output for 'ps':
>
> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> 48428 v0 Ss 0:00.28 -bash (bash)
> 48581 v0 R+ 0:00.00 ps
> 42975 v1 Is+ 0:00.04 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1
> 38431 v2- IEs+ 0:00.00 (getty)
>
> I'm thinking that PID 38431 is screwed. I tried killing it, but it doesn't
> die.
>
> So, how do I fix my vtty2 without rebooting?
this is amusing, lol!
anyhow try switching to the VT and pressing scroll lock then
use the arrow keys to scroll around, prehaps he hit this
and moved around the screen...
-Alfred
>
> Thanks for the info!
>
> Joey
>
>
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> Downey, CA
> gummibear@mediaone.net
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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net]
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