Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 18:44:51 -0500 (EST) From: David Kott <dakott@alpha.delta.edu> To: David Kelly <dkelly@nebula.tbe.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stuck console Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980402184230.20147B-100000@kott.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <199803311457.IAA26168@PeeCee.tbe.com>
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On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, David Kelly wrote:
> On exit from X last night my vty console did not recover. Normally I login
> via vty0 and launch startx. Am running the XF86_Mach64 server.
>
> Today, I telent'ed in from another system and launched startx. So for now
> I'm functioning without having to reboot. Alt-F[1-4] do nothing. The
> Scroll Lock key does nothing. Any way to reset the text console?
>
> PeeCee: {1003} uptime
> 8:53AM up 53 days, 22 hrs, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
> PeeCee: {1004} uname -a
> FreeBSD PeeCee.tbe.com 2.2.5-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE #0: Thu Feb 5 09:24:45 CST 1998 root@PeeCee.tbe.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/PEECEE i386
> PeeCee: {1005}
>
I can repeatedly lock up my virtual terminals by attempting to switch to
them WHILE XFree86 is in the process of shutting down. Is this what you
did? I have not found a way to recover from this, and have always had to
reboot. I just avoid the problem now by NOT changing terminals whilst
XFree is shutting down.
-d
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