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Subject: Re: lost console
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 18:58:29 +0100 (MET)
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In reply to Christoph P. Kukulies who wrote:
> 
> I read about lost console a couple of days ago but I didn't
> read very deep, actually I skipped.
> Now it seems to have caught me:
> On a -current (14 days old) running PCVT I suddenly 
> lost the capability of vt switching  (xterms and X still
> running processes). I cannot switch to other consoles
> and cannot grab the X server again.

AHaaa, and I thought I had a syscons bug !!
It seems we should look for something more generic then....

> What is the cause for this?

Currently I'm clueless, but I've seen it a couple of times here too
I'm not running X that much since the Xaccel server still is unusable
on my Diamond viper pro video :( :(

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