Ctrl-alt-delete in syscons pause/scrollback mode breaks system

2010-11-06 Thread Bruce Cran
Today I came back to my computer and realised I'd left ttyv0 in history/scrollback mode, with scroll-lock enabled. To see what would happen I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot and was surprised to see that it seemed to get partway through the process but it never rebooted: the other ttys were kille

Re: Ctrl-alt-delete in syscons pause/scrollback mode breaks system

2010-11-06 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 11/6/10, Bruce Cran wrote: > Today I came back to my computer and realised I'd left ttyv0 in > history/scrollback mode, with scroll-lock enabled. To see what > would happen I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot and was surprised to > see that it seemed to get partway through the process but it ne