From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 31 08:22:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13406 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 08:22:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wankers.net (root@host-32-96-43-215.atl.bellsouth.net [32.96.43.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13398 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 08:22:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dex@wankers.net) Received: from localhost (dex@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wankers.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA19703; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:21:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dex@wankers.net) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:21:48 -0500 (EST) From: Dexnation Holodream X-Sender: dex@localhost To: David Kelly cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stuck console In-Reply-To: <199803311555.JAA00331@PeeCee.tbe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message