Console peaced out?

Larry D Sorensen larry.sorensen at juno.com
Mon Dec 20 16:20:26 UTC 2004


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 at elih.org> 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
> 
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