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Re: tty1 is frozen!



On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 04:57:47PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
> 
> I accidently ran 'bl -S -d tty' (it should be: bl -S -d 125000 tty) on
> tty1, and it frozen the console & all the VCs -- I couldn't switch to
> another VC, type anything, etc..  I was able to telnet it and kill the
> shell bl was running from, and now only tty1 is frozen.  Killing getty on
> tty1 didn't help either.  The permissions for /dev/tty1 are also correct.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to fix this (without rebooting)?

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