Re: Console peaced out?
From: Larry D Sorensen (larry.sorensen_at_juno.com)
Date: 12/20/04
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To: redhat-list@redhat.com Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:20:26 -0700
I had a similar problem to this on my system. I turned it in to support
and they gave me a temporary update. They said that a permanent fix would
be out at the first part of the year.
Larry
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:58:28 -0500 Jim Maul <jmaul@elih.org> writes:
> tom pollerman wrote:
> > On Friday 17 December 2004 15:26, Jim Maul wrote:
> >
> >>I am running rh9 on a couple machines at work here. While i was
> out
> >>sick one day a co-worker logged into one of the machines and did
> loaded
> >>up xwindows (startx). I (and him) have done this many times in
> the past
> >>without a problem but for some reason when he did it this time, he
> said
> >>that xwindows started loading but then the screen went black and
> that
> >>was it. I originally thought it might be something with the
> display
> >>settings being out of range for the monitor but it appears that is
> not
> >>the problem. The machine responds fine (to ping and such) and i
> can get
> >>into it through ssh without and problems but the console appears
> to be
> >>hosed. The keyboard is unresponsive (i cant even get the numlock
> light
> >>to come on) and the screen is just sitting there black. It is not
> a
> >>problem with the monitor or anything as i have swapped that out.
> >>
> >>I tried killing his session to see if it would log him out and
> return
> >>the console to a prompt but that did not happen. The session
> ended as
> >>it not longer is displayed in top or who but still the console
> remains
> >>black and the keyboard is unresponsive.
> >>
> >>Is there something that i can kill or run to be able to get the
> console
> >>back? This machine usually goes 8-10 months before something
> comes up
> >>where it needs to be rebooted and i REALLY dont want to have to
> reboot
> >>it now. Its serving quite a lot for us here. And yes, i know
> you
> >>shouldnt really be running x on a console of a server but hey, he
> did
> >>and now its hosed and i gotta deal with it.
> >>
> >>Does anyone have any ideas or perhaps more info is needed?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>-Jim
> >
> >
> > Sometimes when your terminal is behaving strangely, you can try
> to reset it
> > to a "reasonable" set of default settings by 'blindly' typing the
> command:
> >
> > stty sane <enter>
> >
> > or:
> >
> > CTRL-J
> > stty sane
> > CTRL-J
> >
> > (CTRL-J is interpreted as a carriage-return, in case <enter> is
> also
> > unresponsive)
> >
>
> Just a followup to my problem here...
>
> The above suggestion did not help but after a reboot, the machine
> came
> back up just fine. I tried running startx again and the same
> problem
> happened. Just before it starts to load kde (i see the X mouse
> pointer
> for about 3 or 4 seconds) then the screen goes black. I tried
> running
> this as different users all with the same results. I tried running
>
> xFree86 -configure in case the x config file was corrupted but when
>
> using the new config file, x loaded and must have been using a value
>
> that was too high for my monitor cause i could see graphics but they
>
> were very distorted and scrolling up the screen. a quick
> ctrl-alt-backspace brought me back to the command line so this was
> atleast a little better than before because now i could atleast get
> back
> to the prompt. after doing "switchdesk twm" to try a differnt
> window
> manager it just suddenly started working. The weird thing is that
> it
> didnt load twm..it loaded kde like it always did. This is very
> weird
> indeed.
>
> So to make a long story short, its working now, but i have NO idea
> why.
>
> Thanks for the responses.
>
> -Jim
>
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