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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:21:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dexnation Holodream <dex@wankers.net>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@nebula.tbe.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stuck console 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331112132.29885Q-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199803311555.JAA00331@PeeCee.tbe.com>

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ok...you need to send init a HUP...that should fix it.

-Jon

On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, David Kelly wrote:

> Dexnation Holodream writes:
> > did you try CTRL-ALT [1-4]???
> > 
> > that's what I always have to use.
> 
> Only when in X. Alt-F[1-4] beeps at the console. Add a Ctrl to that and 
> still get the beep. Guess the problem is moot now as I was pounding key 
> sequences and didn't think before pounding Ctrl-Alt-Delete. System 
> politely shutdown and rebooted just like it was supposed to.
> 
> Maybe it wasn't apparent in my posting that I had a text display, the X 
> display was gone. Was able to startx via telnet from another system.
> 
> Forgot to add before, used "ps -aux" to scan all the processes guessing 
> somebody still had control of the console. Found nothing. Altho it 
> *shouldn't* have mattered because I couldn't get to any of my (3) getty's 
> running on vty's (yes, a getty was running on the console I used to 
> startx, as I had logged off it). "killall getty" respawned the vty getty's 
> and didn't help.
> 
> --
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nebula.tbe.com
> ========================================================================
> Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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