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Re: tty1 clogged up



--begin quoted message from Ian Balchin, 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Am still stuck with the locked screen display. I don't want to have
> to reboot to clear it, so how can I get tty1 back? Mutt and Jove are
> dead.

assuming you actually logged in to tty1:
ps -aux | grep tty1

look for the job number of '-bash' or equivalent login shell.
kill that.  (kill -9 <pid # here> )
that should close the tty, causing init to bring up a new one.

> 
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> Ian Balchin
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> This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org
> 
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