Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:07:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: David Kott <dakott@alpha.delta.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Hung" Virtual terminal in -stable. Doesn't respond to "kill -KILL". Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331110512.5583H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330212403.20039A-100000@kott.my.domain>
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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, David Kott wrote: > This happens to my machine on a semi-regular basis, basically, when the > computer is left running for several days unattended; that is, I don't > login, ttyv0 ends up "hanging". It no longer responds to keypresses or > "kill -KILL" attempts. In the past, I have to reboot the computer to > get rid of this process. I have never seen any other virtual terminal > exibit this behavior; only ttyv0. Here is some output from ps: > > USER PID PPID PGID SESS JOBC STAT TT TIME COMMAND > root 18274 1 18274 7aace0 0 I<Es+ v0- 0:00.00 (login) > That would imply a problem with vty0 (the default console). Does that console appear to work okay? Are you running xdm or something else on that console? login is probably jammed on tty output. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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