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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Crashing - What Gives ?????
Summary: /dev/console throws up tabs
Message-ID: <6912@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 88 18:23:13 GMT
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In-reply-to: dymm@b.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (David Dymm)

In article <196@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>, dymm@b.cs (David Dymm) writes:
>[killing the "main" csh process causes "login >kbd: buffer flushed..."
>Anyone know what is happening??

Misery loves company...

(Scene: X11R3, fixes 1-3 installed, on Sun-3/160-M's and Sun-3/50-M's
running SunOS 3.4)

Whenever we've had to kill an X server (or the server crashes) it
leaves /dev/console in a bizarre state where it provides an endless
barrage of ^I (tabs) to any process reading it.  This makes getty
fail, causing init to give up on /dev/console ("getty failing,
sleeping").  

Rebooting clears the problem, but...  Exiting the server the normal
ways works just fine.

No answers here, just more information.

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Tad Guy         <tadguy@cs.odu.edu>     Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA