I had a similar problem to this on my system. I turned it in to support and they gave me a temporary update. They said that a permanent fix would be out at the first part of the year. Larry On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:58:28 -0500 Jim Maul <jmaul@xxxxxxxx> writes: > tom pollerman wrote: > > On Friday 17 December 2004 15:26, Jim Maul wrote: > > > >>I am running rh9 on a couple machines at work here. While i was > out > >>sick one day a co-worker logged into one of the machines and did > loaded > >>up xwindows (startx). I (and him) have done this many times in > the past > >>without a problem but for some reason when he did it this time, he > said > >>that xwindows started loading but then the screen went black and > that > >>was it. I originally thought it might be something with the > display > >>settings being out of range for the monitor but it appears that is > not > >>the problem. The machine responds fine (to ping and such) and i > can get > >>into it through ssh without and problems but the console appears > to be > >>hosed. The keyboard is unresponsive (i cant even get the numlock > light > >>to come on) and the screen is just sitting there black. It is not > a > >>problem with the monitor or anything as i have swapped that out. > >> > >>I tried killing his session to see if it would log him out and > return > >>the console to a prompt but that did not happen. The session > ended as > >>it not longer is displayed in top or who but still the console > remains > >>black and the keyboard is unresponsive. > >> > >>Is there something that i can kill or run to be able to get the > console > >>back? This machine usually goes 8-10 months before something > comes up > >>where it needs to be rebooted and i REALLY dont want to have to > reboot > >>it now. Its serving quite a lot for us here. And yes, i know > you > >>shouldnt really be running x on a console of a server but hey, he > did > >>and now its hosed and i gotta deal with it. > >> > >>Does anyone have any ideas or perhaps more info is needed? > >> > >>Thanks, > >> > >>-Jim > > > > > > Sometimes when your terminal is behaving strangely, you can try > to reset it > > to a "reasonable" set of default settings by 'blindly' typing the > command: > > > > stty sane <enter> > > > > or: > > > > CTRL-J > > stty sane > > CTRL-J > > > > (CTRL-J is interpreted as a carriage-return, in case <enter> is > also > > unresponsive) > > > > Just a followup to my problem here... > > The above suggestion did not help but after a reboot, the machine > came > back up just fine. I tried running startx again and the same > problem > happened. Just before it starts to load kde (i see the X mouse > pointer > for about 3 or 4 seconds) then the screen goes black. I tried > running > this as different users all with the same results. I tried running > > xFree86 -configure in case the x config file was corrupted but when > > using the new config file, x loaded and must have been using a value > > that was too high for my monitor cause i could see graphics but they > > were very distorted and scrolling up the screen. a quick > ctrl-alt-backspace brought me back to the command line so this was > atleast a little better than before because now i could atleast get > back > to the prompt. after doing "switchdesk twm" to try a differnt > window > manager it just suddenly started working. The weird thing is that > it > didnt load twm..it loaded kde like it always did. This is very > weird > indeed. > > So to make a long story short, its working now, but i have NO idea > why. > > Thanks for the responses. > > -Jim > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
