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From: steven@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Steven Sakata)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Hung console
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Date: 4 Jul 90 19:01:55 GMT
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Reply-To: steven@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Steven Sakata)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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We've just installed X11/R4 on our Suns (SPARCstations and Sun 490s) compiled
under SunOS 4.0.3 and we have the following problem:

If someone starts up X, using xinit, .xinitrc, xterm, twm, etc., and then kills
the server process X:0, the console is left in a hung state.  The system is
still up (I can telnet, ftp, etc to it), but I can no longer use the console.
The only way I can get the console back is by performing a shutdown and reboot.
Does anyone out there know of a solution to this so I don't have to keep shut-
ting down the system.  Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks, Steven.

ps. I try to inform as the users to not kill the X:0 process, but these systems
are in a workstation lab at a university where many different users come
and go.

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Steven Sakata (University of Hawaii Computing Center)
Internet: steven@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu
Bitnet: steven@uhunix.bitnet