Re: frozen tty1 - was 3com nic

[Marty Landman <MLandman face2interface com>]

At 08:49 PM 1/2/2004, Rick Stevens wrote:

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

Doesn't work Rick, the screen seems frozen and won't accept any input from me.

> 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?

Yes. But apparently even though tty1 is waiting like tty2 etc.. tty1  is 
never gonna get used (at least till I reboot) unless I can unlock that screen.

> 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".

[root penguin marty]# ps -ax|grep ed
    9 ?        SW     0:00 [kupdated]
17067 pts/0    S      0:00 grep ed


Hmm, what else could be up? BTW, how do I start using X?

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