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Subject: Re: locking up
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 00:14:52 -0500
From: Richard Hwang <rhwang@mail.io.com>
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> To fix it if you can log in as root from another host, try
>
>     echo "set ipending=2" | gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem
>
> This fakes a keyboard interrupt.

Doing  '/usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -r fast < /dev/console' works for me.
(Need to be root, or change permissions on /dev/console, though)

-Rich