> When I have to kill -9 X, is there anyway (w/o rebooting, the box has been
> up for 73 days on 2.2.10 SMP) to get the console back the way it was after
> the machine boots? I've upgraded the kernel to 2.2.13 but don't see a need
> to reboot (the console isn't that big of a deal, but would like to fix it).
>
> I'm sure someone else has been in this situation where the console is
> completely messed up and would like to have it back w/o booting.
>
(1) Do you mean like scrambled characters? (2) the wrong virtual terminal?
(are
you using xdm(3) or startx?)
Solutions:
(1) cat a ^O back to yourself
(2) ctrl-alt-F[1-7] or alt-F[1-7]
(3) investigate telinit [1-5] and your /etc/inittab
Dave.
-- Dave Forrest dforrest@virginia.edu (804)296-7283h 924-3954w http://www.people.virginia.edu/~drf5n/
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