console frozen, can't switch vt

From: g whitley mott (grwm_at_gnuleaf.net)
Date: 02/24/04

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    hello redhatters,

    i would guess i need to reboot, but i just thought i'd ask first..

    i killed X with ctl-alt-bsp, the console still shows a signature pattern
    of my windows dying away, ctl-alt-Fn doesn't work, i can get in via ssh
    from elsewhere, X is gone, getty is still running on the VT's, chvt
    doesn't help.

    it's not happened to me before, i've exhausted my tricks for how to
    nudge it. are there any other tricks to try?

    also fwiw, the reason i killed X is because, using gimp, X quickly gets
    mired in pageswap to the tune of 280mb total. and, page swap is
    surprisingly slow on this rh9 box, while other disk activity is as
    speedy as you'd expect. meanwhile running gimp on the same box with X
    on a different rh7.2 box, X there (4.1.0-50) doesnt grab anywhere near
    as much memory, so i'm guessing the newer xfree86 (4.3.0-2.90.55) is a
    pig..

    tia,
    -g 

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