Date: Sun, 26 Nov 95 21:54:38 CST From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: maral@webnet.com.au (Peter Marelas) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Argh, lost console :-( Message-ID: <199511270354.VAA21150@solaria.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951125050344.184A-100000@jazzy.phase-one.com.au> from "Peter Marelas" at Nov 25, 95 05:06:10 am
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> The README in XF86312 says to start xdm from a tty in /etc/ttys > > The easiest way to automatically start the display manager on boot is > to add a line in /etc/ttys to start it on one of the unoccupied > virtual terminals: Yeah, yeah, we know :-) and that might be a cure for the symptom. However, it would be nice to have a cure for the problem.... I have seen consoles get into interesting states every once in a while, and it is really NOT ideal to have to reboot the machine to clear it up. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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