From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 31 08:22:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13311 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 08:22:32 -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 IAA13296 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 08:22:22 -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 KAA00473; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:21:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@PeeCee.tbe.com) Message-Id: <199803311621.KAA00473@PeeCee.tbe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Kazutaka YOKOTA cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stuck console In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:56:02 +0900." <199803311556.AAA23553@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:21:13 -0600 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: > > >On exit from X last night my vty console did not recover. > > What did it look? A blank screen? Garbage? The text output by the Mach64 X server on startup via startx was still on the console screen. > >Normally I login > >via vty0 and launch startx. Am running the XF86_Mach64 server. > > Which version of XFree86 are you running? Did the X server > actually stop? Or, was it hanging the console? 3.3.1. The X server was no longer running. Something was hanging the console, I couldn't find it. Looking at the text I would guess the problem happened Monday morning when I first launched startx, and didn't happen last night when I exited. I use an alias to startx: PeeCee: {1002} alias Startx startx & ; sleep 60 ; exit PeeCee: {1003} The login prompt never made it on the vty, altho a getty was running. > >Today, I telent'ed in from another system and launched startx. > > Did it start the X server successfully? Yup. Fired up exmh and posted the first message in this thread. > >So for now > >I'm functioning without having to reboot. Alt-F[1-4] do nothing. The > >Scroll Lock key does nothing. > > If you are in the X session, you should be using Ctl-Alt-F[1-4] :-) I wasn't too clear. Alt-F[1-4] did nothing when I had a text display. Ctrl didn't help either. After starting X from a remote telnet session (onto my problem console) that X session worked perfectly fine, altho inability to Ctrl-Alt-F1 sorta makes sense as the system console was not the parent of the X session. If you missed my other message, accidentally typed "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" before remembering what that ment. Put the problem to rest. Had to appologize to a couple of Samba and AFP users who were connected at the time. :-( Thanks for trying. -- 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