resetting tty1

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On Thu, 3 May 2007, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 03 May 2007, Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> The screen of tty1 is frozen. Hitting all keys got no responsse.
>>
>> I tried `killall getty`, no luck.
>>
>> how could I restore it?
>
> This has happened to me many times over the past year or more.  Happens less
> these days...  and it's probably due to flubbing a series of keys but I
> couldn 't tell you which.
>
> What I usually do is to restart the X server......

How would restarting X fix a problem with the console?

At any rate, usually what I do is just kill the process that owns the tty 
that is frozen.  I'm not sure what kind of system Chang is using, but on 
my systems the VC's are run with mingetty, not getty.

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