From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 03:18:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA15385 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 03:18:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA15380 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 03:18:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA15735; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:17:47 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma015733; Tue Feb 11 13:17:35 1997 Message-ID: <330054BE.2D65@barcode.co.il> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:15:10 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Stein CC: Prisoner , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loss of vty access when switching into X References: <199702110632.WAA02617@joes.users.spiritone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joseph Stein wrote: > > Prisoner stands accused of saying: > > [...] This seems most prevalent if an attempt is quickly > > made to switch back (ie, I didn't mean to switch into X, said "d'oh!" and > > hit ctrl-alt-F1). > > > > The problem has surfaced with both XFree86 [...] > > I've noticed this here on a 486/120 under 2.2-GAMMA (!) (970207 I think) > and the only "fix" i've found is to reboot :-( > > joe I've noticed something similar with XFree 3.1.2/3.2.0 on 2.1.{0/5/6}. When I use xdm, if I try to switch to vty0 before xdm displays its login window then I'll be locked into X just like you describe. I don't know of any fix other than rebooting either. Nadav