frozen ttys

[Alex Snow]

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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.
> 
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