Re: console frozen, can't switch vt

From: tom pollerman (tompollerman_at_mail.landolls.com)
Date: 02/24/04

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    Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:23:24 -0500
    
    

    On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:29:01 +0000
    g whitley mott <grwm@gnuleaf.net> wrote:

    > 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
    >
       You might try, (even typing 'blindly'):

          stty sane <enter>

    This will attempt to bring the console back to some 'reasonable'
    defaults.

                                           Tom

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