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Date:      Sat, 16 Dec 1995 18:58:29 +0100 (MET)
From:      sos@FreeBSD.org
To:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lost console
Message-ID:  <199512161758.SAA09550@ra.dkuug.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199512161751.SAA07698@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Dec 16, 95 06:51:25 pm

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In reply to Christoph P. Kukulies who wrote:
> 
> I read about lost console a couple of days ago but I didn't
> read very deep, actually I skipped.
> Now it seems to have caught me:
> On a -current (14 days old) running PCVT I suddenly 
> lost the capability of vt switching  (xterms and X still
> running processes). I cannot switch to other consoles
> and cannot grab the X server again.

AHaaa, and I thought I had a syscons bug !!
It seems we should look for something more generic then....

> What is the cause for this?

Currently I'm clueless, but I've seen it a couple of times here too
I'm not running X that much since the Xaccel server still is unusable
on my Diamond viper pro video :( :(

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Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team
               So much code to hack -- so little time.



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