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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tk2x+ From: Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: help! re: X hanging -- still haven't heard solution Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 19:02:29 -0500 Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <oh1agJG00VBN8g62JW@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po5.andrew.cmu.edu i have seen a few posts concerning X hanging on exit. i am running FreeBSD and XFree86 2.0. i was having the problem that X was hanging whenever i exited. actually, that's misleading -- it wasn't X that was hanging. i could telnet into my machine and kill the shell process, and i would get a login screen, and everything worked fine after that. i was offered a couple of possible solutions, one of which was adding stty -f /dev/vga sane to the end of my startx script. but that didn't help. then a floormate of mine running NetBSD told me what he did -- he linked /dev/console to /dev/vga and changed the entry in /etc/ttys to read /dev/vga instead of /dev/console. i tried this and it worked. but the problem is that now i can't see anything echoed to the console, because it's going to /dev/vga, and not being a unix guru, i don't really know where that sends it or whether i could see what goes there. so i want to unlink the console, but does anyone know what's going wrong here and how i can fix it? i've heard other people complain of the same problem. please, one of you bsd masters must know! thanks...