Steve Borho wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:44:54PM -0700, Fred Herman wrote:
> > While logging into a tty and talking on the phone, I managed to type the
> > password incorrectly 3-4 times. Now that TTY is totally non-responsive
> > (I assume a security feature). The other TTY's are OK and I have found
> > nothing in the system that is locking out the one TTY. Short or
> > rebooting, how do I recover this TTY.
>
> try killing the mingetty running on that console. init should start another
> one.
>
> ix% ps ax|grep mingetty
> 688 tty3 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
> 689 tty4 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
> 690 tty5 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
> 691 tty6 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
> 769 tty1 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
>
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Already tried that. No joy. I also tryed stty sane <tty1 with no
luck. The TTY is just frozen. It's been that way for a week.
Thanks
Fred
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