resetting tty1

[Collins Richey]

On 5/3/07, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 03 May 2007, Net Llama! wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Well, in my case it usually happens under KDE and with my xterms.
>
> I realized after I posed that he was talking tty1
>

I presume (???) he's switched to an alternate console, or is not
running X at all ???

In any case, I get this sort of behavior under RHEL4/KDE all too
frequently. Typically, at any time, I have half a dozen or more
Konsole sessions opened, most of them ssh'd to one of our servers.
Also I KVM switch to 2-3 other systems at my desk. From time to time
when I switch to one of the Konsole sessions, I find it stuck. Ths
comes in 2 flavors: (1) totally non-responsive (2) stuck in scroll
mode - arrow keys cause the scroll bars to operate, but no way to
enter new commands. No matter how many Konsole windows I have open,
only one of them is ever stuck in this fashion.

The fix is to say Ah ---- and X out of the Konsole screen and start again.

-- 
Collins Richey
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