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From: mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan)
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Subject: Re: Hung console ...
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Date: 6 Jul 90 17:51:35 GMT
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In article <8514@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> steven@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Steven Sakata) writes:
>
>However, I've tried that, and it still doesn't free the console.  I've telneted
>over to the system that has the hung console, and I ran that command, and it
>doesn't seem to do anything.  Any ideas?.....Thanks, Steven.

I've seen the same thing on a VAXstationII and R4, except it was when I was
closing out X.  The man page for xinit says that it waits for .xinitrc to
exit then kills the server.  Well, it appears that it is waiting forever
for something instead of killing the server.  I have to rlogin from
some other machine, kill off everything related to X, kill my console
login and kick the getty to get back the console.

Mike

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