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From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root)
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Subject: Re: Console wedged
To: ejon@zipnet.net (Eric H. Jones)
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:49:51 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199604231319.JAA19670@zip0.zipnet.net> from "Eric H. Jones" at Apr 23, 96 09:19:20 am
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In a previous message, Eric H. Jones said:
> 
> Howdy, All,
> 	Somebody not logged into teh console fired up X, which switched
> me to console window 4.  I killed the X server, but now I can't get
> back to an active console window!  Any suggestions?  I'd hate to have
> to reboot the thing for something like this since it's been up for
> 48 days already.

Ctrl-Alt-F1 while inside an X server tty instead of Alt-F1


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