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From: gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan)
Subject: XFree86 2.0 S3-928 Hangup
Organization: Delaware State Hospital
Message-ID: <CIK46M.5AA@dragon.dsh.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1993 20:42:21 GMT
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As others have noted there is a problem with XFree86 that may cause
the console to go unresponsive on exiting. Logging in from another
terminal and killing xinit works, but is no good if you don't have
another terminal. I've found that I can use "ps ux" to find the
process id of xinit, "(sleep 30 ; kill -HUP <xinit pid here>) &", and
exit the session (exit window manager, last window, or whatever.)
Also, I've noticed an interesting thing on my DECpc 466d2 MTE
running NetBSD 0.9 while trying to wake up the console. If I turn on
the Scroll Lock and hit Enter until the cursor tries to go past the
bottom of the screen, the system reboots itself. Cute, huh?
Gary D. Duzan
Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts
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