From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 4 01:44:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22967 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 01:44:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.delta.edu (alpha.delta.edu [161.133.129.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA22961 for ; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 01:44:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dakott@alpha.delta.edu) Received: from pm343-41.dialip.mich.net by alpha.delta.edu; (5.65v3.0/1.1.8.2/06Jan97-0932AM) id AA20457; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 04:46:52 -0500 Received: from kott.my.domain (dakott@kott.my.domain [192.168.0.1]) by kott.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA20319; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 18:44:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 18:44:51 -0500 (EST) From: David Kott To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stuck console In-Reply-To: <199803311457.IAA26168@PeeCee.tbe.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message