Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:53:04 +0330 From: "Bahman M." <b.movaqar@adempiere.org> To: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to restart a freezed tty? Message-ID: <20070930105304.35992eca@attila> In-Reply-To: <1191125381.5997.29.camel@new-host> References: <20070929131631.43937a65@attila> <1191125381.5997.29.camel@new-host>
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:09:40 -0400 "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 13:16 +0330, Bahman M. wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > For some reason all the ttys are frozen up; I can switch between X > > and them back and forth but not between the ttys themselves using > > ALT+Fn. > > Can you start new xterms? When you say 'frozen', do they "not accept > keyboard input"? Is it possible scroll-lock is enabled? What about > the TTY that you started Xorg from? > > Is this temporal? When did it start happening? > > Is there anything in /var/log/messages? > Good questions; I should have explained the situation a bit more. I can start as many xterm as I'd like to. In fact when I'm in X everything is alright. I was doing some ports compilation on ttyv2 and in the midst of that I remembered I forgot to pass a switch to compiler. I pressed CTRL+C and it stopped but ttyv2 also stopped responding to any keyboard events (even the mouse doesn't appear there). Now when I switch to ttyvn by pressing ALT+Fn, it always switches to ttyv2 with the same text shown as the moment it stopped working. I killed all the ttyvn processes. They terminated and restarted as expected. Now they all have different PIDs than before but still I can't use them. It's the first time I'm encountering such a problem. I looked through dmesg output or in /var/log/messages but there was nothing unsual out there. > Did you try: $ sudo pkill -HUP init ? > Will give it a try. BTW, this is the my home machine just for personal use; it thus doesn't hurt anyone if I restart the system but I'm just curious to know how one can get out of such situation. > > > I tried killing them; they terminate and restart but still > > frozen. I don't believe the only way out is to restart the system. > > > > How to make ttys behave normally? I'd appreciate any idea. > > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 > > xorg-7.2 > > fluxbox-1.0rc3_3 > > Thanks, Bahman
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