From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 31 07:56:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08487 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 07:56:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from PeeCee.tbe.com (firewallx.tbe.com [192.88.94.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08474 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 07:56:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@PeeCee.tbe.com) Received: from PeeCee.tbe.com (localhost.tbe.com [127.0.0.1]) by PeeCee.tbe.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA00331; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:55:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@PeeCee.tbe.com) Message-Id: <199803311555.JAA00331@PeeCee.tbe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Dexnation Holodream cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stuck console In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:34:54 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:55:20 -0600 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Dexnation Holodream writes: > did you try CTRL-ALT [1-4]??? > > that's what I always have to use. Only when in X. Alt-F[1-4] beeps at the console. Add a Ctrl to that and still get the beep. Guess the problem is moot now as I was pounding key sequences and didn't think before pounding Ctrl-Alt-Delete. System politely shutdown and rebooted just like it was supposed to. Maybe it wasn't apparent in my posting that I had a text display, the X display was gone. Was able to startx via telnet from another system. Forgot to add before, used "ps -aux" to scan all the processes guessing somebody still had control of the console. Found nothing. Altho it *shouldn't* have mattered because I couldn't get to any of my (3) getty's running on vty's (yes, a getty was running on the console I used to startx, as I had logged off it). "killall getty" respawned the vty getty's and didn't help. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nebula.tbe.com ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message