Re: frozen tty1 - was 3com nic

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Marty Landman wrote:
> At 08:12 PM 1/2/2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> > Next time you'll know better.
>
>
> Speaking of knowing better I typed "ed myfile" on tty1 and can't figure 
> out how to get out of it. Now it appears that the session is lost, yet 
> the screen is frozen e.g.
>
> [root penguin marty]# ps -ax|grep tty
>  1616 tty4     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
>  1617 tty5     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
>  1618 tty6     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
> 16891 tty1     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
> 16898 tty3     S      0:00 -bash
> 16956 tty2     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
> 17031 pts/0    S      0:00 grep tty

To get out of ed, enter ":q" or just "q".

You can try "kill -9 16891" to kill the mingetty on tty1, if that's
what you want to do.  I doubt that's it.  tty1 is the console "ALT-F1".
You know that, right?

Remember that the process may have been orphaned, so "ps -ax | grep ed"
to see if it's still alive.  If so, kill it with "kill -9".

> Hey, now that I can ssh into that box I feel so empowered.

Neat, eh?
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