Re: How to restart a freezed tty?

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:09:40 -0400
"Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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