frozen ttys

[Ari Moisio]

Hi!

  Almost last resort is to command
fuser -k /dev/tty1
or
fuser -k -9 /dev/tty1
with tty1 replaced with actuoal frozen tty

  This will restore that tty into login prompt.



-- 
arimo

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Alex Snow wrote:

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> Hi all.
> 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.
> thanks.
>
> - --
> > I get the following error messages at bootup, could anyone tell me
> > what they mean?
> > fcntl_setlk() called by process 51 (lpd) with broken flock() emulation
> They mean that you have not read the documentation when upgrading the
> kernel.
> 	-- seen on c.o.l.misc
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