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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:07:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: David Kott <dakott@alpha.delta.edu>
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Subject: Re: "Hung" Virtual terminal in -stable.  Doesn't respond to "kill -KILL".
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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, David Kott wrote:

> This happens to my machine on a semi-regular basis, basically, when the
> computer is left running for several days unattended;  that is, I don't
> login, ttyv0 ends up "hanging".  It no longer responds to keypresses or
> "kill -KILL" attempts.  In the past, I have to reboot the computer to
> get rid of this process.  I have never seen any other virtual terminal
> exibit this behavior; only ttyv0.   Here is some output from ps:
> 
> USER       PID  PPID  PGID   SESS JOBC STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
> root     18274     1 18274 7aace0    0 I<Es+  v0-   0:00.00  (login)
> 

That would imply a problem with vty0 (the default console). Does that
console appear to work okay?  Are you running xdm or something else on
that console?

login is probably jammed on tty output.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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