-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 thanks. I ended up having to drop into single user and telinit 3 to get it all working again. On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 07:18:36PM -0700, David Csercsics wrote: > >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. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it. -- Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfb0X9XVrM3ri110RArndAJ0fYpOpXebm021r00na52hkbkprGwCfTCIY FjjAG7g6bTyilUkkwtrnUNA= =VzAB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
