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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!eru.mt.luth.se!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news.rediris.es!sanson.dit.upm.es!ioda!jmrueda From: jmrueda@diatel.upm.es (Javier Martin Rueda ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ANY WAY to re-enter a v0 session??? Date: 26 Sep 1996 11:01:06 GMT Organization: Dpt. Ing. Telematica Lines: 29 Message-ID: <52dnpi$o3v@sanson.dit.upm.es> References: <Dy5DzL.81F@news2.new-york.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ioda.diatel.upm.es Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] > Something occasionally happens when I am logged in at the console at ttyv0 > that forces me to log in again on ttyv[greater than 0]. I don't understand. You mean that ttyv0 hangs and you have to switch to another virtual console, and then you cannot switch back to ttyv0, or that it continues to be hung forever? It's weird. The closest hangups I've experienced are when I use an X server in another virtual console, but never when using only text virtual consoles: 1) Sometimes, when I switch from the X server to a text virtual console, the state of the shift, control, and alt keys is broken, and I cannot type correctly. Pressing and releasing them a few times solves that. 2) If I switch from the X server to a text virtual console while the X server is resetting the video card, or changing video modes, the screen goes blank, and I cannot see what I type, or go back to the X server. Network and all still works perfectly, but console is almost useless. I don't know of a way of solving that, other than rebooting. Of course, now I never change virtual consoles if the server is resetting or changing video modes. :-) > A reboot may restore stuff in .save files,but sometimes a reboot is > rather inconvenient;is there no sshortcut to re-enter the session or > bring its processes to the foreground? I think that the snoop pseudodevice may help you. If your kernel has snoop compiled in, you may login as root (or use su) in another virtual console, snoop ttyv0, and go on working. I think that snoop lets you type in, not only see what other guy is doing. If not, this wouldn't be a solution either.