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From: Mike Eggleston <mikee@sys8.wfc.com>
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Subject: virtual consoles lock up?
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I'm running freebsd 2.1 on a p133 with an adaptec 2940 and a bitsurfer
pro comming off a 16650 uart and as I move from one console to
another, <Alt-F1> to <Alt-F2>, it locks the entire virtual console and
I can't get in.  The only way I can salvage my system is to log into
it through the bitsurfer and do a reboot.

The time it happened tonight I had just switched off a virtual console
that was running emacs that was loading gnus.

Any ideas?

Mike