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From: Pieter Westland <pieterw@euronet.nl>
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Subject: Hanging tty's
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Hi,

On a 3.3-RELEASE machine, I have two hanging tty's, ttyv0 and ttyv1.
The screen is blank, when trying to input something to it, nothing
happens. watch -W also gives no result.
A ps axl gives:
    0 72794     1 255 -14 -4     0    0 ckvnlk D<Es  v0    0:00.00 (login)
    0 96855     1 255   4 -4   956  360 ttywai I<Es+  v1-   0:00.00 (login)

The states of these processes say something like (ps(1)):
D	Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninterruptible) wait.
I	Marks a process that is idle (sleeping for longer than about 20 
	seconds).
+	The process is in the foreground process group of its control 
	terminal.
E	The process is trying to exit.
s	The process is a session leader.
<	The process has raised CPU scheduling priority.

I tried to do a kill -1 1, to disable these tty's from /etc/ttys , to
start a  /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1  manually, but all without result.

Anyone having an idea?

Pieter


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