Re: How to restart a freezed tty?
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:09:40 -0400 Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 13:16 +0330, Bahman M. wrote: Hi all, For some reason all the ttys are frozen up; I can switch between X and them back and forth but not between the ttys themselves using ALT+Fn. Can you start new xterms? When you say 'frozen', do they not accept keyboard input? Is it possible scroll-lock is enabled? What about the TTY that you started Xorg from? Is this temporal? When did it start happening? Is there anything in /var/log/messages? Good questions; I should have explained the situation a bit more. I can start as many xterm as I'd like to. In fact when I'm in X everything is alright. I was doing some ports compilation on ttyv2 and in the midst of that I remembered I forgot to pass a switch to compiler. I pressed CTRL+C and it stopped but ttyv2 also stopped responding to any keyboard events (even the mouse doesn't appear there). Now when I switch to ttyvn by pressing ALT+Fn, it always switches to ttyv2 with the same text shown as the moment it stopped working. I killed all the ttyvn processes. They terminated and restarted as expected. Now they all have different PIDs than before but still I can't use them. It's the first time I'm encountering such a problem. I looked through dmesg output or in /var/log/messages but there was nothing unsual out there. Did you try: $ sudo pkill -HUP init ? Will give it a try. BTW, this is the my home machine just for personal use; it thus doesn't hurt anyone if I restart the system but I'm just curious to know how one can get out of such situation. I tried killing them; they terminate and restart but still frozen. I don't believe the only way out is to restart the system. How to make ttys behave normally? I'd appreciate any idea. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 xorg-7.2 fluxbox-1.0rc3_3 Thanks, Bahman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to restart a freezed tty?
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:09:40 -0400 Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 13:16 +0330, Bahman M. wrote: Hi all, For some reason all the ttys are frozen up; I can switch between X and them back and forth but not between the ttys themselves using ALT+Fn. Can you start new xterms? When you say 'frozen', do they not accept keyboard input? Is it possible scroll-lock is enabled? What about the TTY that you started Xorg from? Is this temporal? When did it start happening? Is there anything in /var/log/messages? Did you try: $ sudo pkill -HUP init ? Yes. It killed X and got me to the frozen terminals. There I could do nothing (no shell) but pressing the power button! The case is closed :-) I tried killing them; they terminate and restart but still frozen. I don't believe the only way out is to restart the system. How to make ttys behave normally? I'd appreciate any idea. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 xorg-7.2 fluxbox-1.0rc3_3 Thanks for your time. Bahman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to restart a freezed tty?
Hi all, For some reason all the ttys are frozen up; I can switch between X and them back and forth but not between the ttys themselves using ALT+Fn. I tried killing them; they terminate and restart but still frozen. I don't believe the only way out is to restart the system. How to make ttys behave normally? I'd appreciate any idea. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 xorg-7.2 fluxbox-1.0rc3_3 TIA, Bahman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to restart a freezed tty?
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 13:16 +0330, Bahman M. wrote: Hi all, For some reason all the ttys are frozen up; I can switch between X and them back and forth but not between the ttys themselves using ALT+Fn. Can you start new xterms? When you say 'frozen', do they not accept keyboard input? Is it possible scroll-lock is enabled? What about the TTY that you started Xorg from? Is this temporal? When did it start happening? Is there anything in /var/log/messages? Did you try: $ sudo pkill -HUP init ? ~BAS I tried killing them; they terminate and restart but still frozen. I don't believe the only way out is to restart the system. How to make ttys behave normally? I'd appreciate any idea. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 xorg-7.2 fluxbox-1.0rc3_3 TIA, Bahman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
