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From: ggreen@cod.NOSC.MIL (George W. Green)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R4 server on sun4 leaves console in funny state
Message-ID: <1747@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 12 Jan 90 02:36:31 GMT
References: <1990Jan11.154942.11853@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: ggreen@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (George W. Green)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <1990Jan11.154942.11853@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Gary Faulkner) writes:
>on a sun4 (server compiled with cc) when the server is killed it leaves
>the console in a state such that
>it appears that it interprets every character typed (in response to hte
>login prompt) as a carriage
>return.  How can we get our console back??
>
>Gary Faulkner

	I've had something similar happen with R3 on both Sun 3/60
	and 4/110 when the server crashes. The keyboard is left in
	a state where each keypress is interpreted as gibberish. Is
	there a way to restore the console without rebooting?


  George Green,  (ggreen@nosc.mil)