>just wondering the best solution for thawing a tty that's completely >frozen. in this particular case lynx was the app that froze but I've >seen it happen with epic and a few other progs. I try kill -9 the >process but nothing. Well if you press control s by accident adn that causes things to freeze then control q should restart that for you. The other thing to check is the scroll lock could be on giving the illusion that your tty is locked when really the problem is that no text is scrolling. Another thing to do would be to kill the bash process running in that console. Just grep for teh process ID of the bash in the frozen tty adn then kill -9 it and that may fix it. If killing the shell that is running the process fails to unlock it then kill -9 the pid of the getty that is running on that console. If all of the above fails then doing shutdown now from another console will drop you into single user mode and then you can telinit 2 or whatever your default run level is. Single user mode will not fiddle with your uptime.
