No... This is not the problem. As I said, X crashed. This makes the X server quit without restoring the display, so you just get your X desktop sitting there. You can restart X remotely, but when you exit, it restores the previous mode, eg a graphical mode instead of a text console. When I close my current (working) X session, I get static, my monitor displays a "NO SIGNAL OR RANGE OUT SIGNAL" message and goes into sleep mode.
Yes, I know what FUBAR means. However, I use the term FUBAR as an adjective. I did say that the console got FUBARd by killing the X server with -9, perhaps my assumption that people on this list had prior experience with this happening was unreasonable. Try it sometime, it's interesting. On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 09:58:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > rtfm, stfw, it's in the howtos > cat > ^O^D > ^C > > describing as just `fubar' doesn't really help people help you > > btw do you know what fubar means, the d at the end is wrong > > Ian Eure wrote on Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 06:37:18PM -0700.. > > Don't think a "reset" will do it, as that just manipulates the terminal > > behaviours... I'll give it a shot anyways in a minute though. > > > > As for the ``shutdown -r now'', I know that I can reboot the system and > > be fine, I just want to fix this without doing that, as I stated in the > > last sentence of my previous message. > > > > I have X running on the console (login to another box, ssh over to the > > borken one, screen, startx, detatch) - I just can't get the text vtys > > back to normal. Tried running a SVGALib program. No dice. The only > > thing that works is X. > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 02:38:38PM -0400, TheKman wrote: > > > Did you try typing reset. Or just typing shutdown -r now. Even if you > > > can't see it a lot of the times the computers sees what you are typing. > > > > > > Ian Eure wrote: > > > > > > > > Ok. Interesting thing happened. Accidentally killed my X server > > > > remotely with > > > > -9. Oops. I come back down to the console and it's all FUBARd. OK. So I > > > > try > > > > a couple things ssh'ing from another box, like SVGATextMode & such. No > > > > dice. > > > > I can get X running, but my text console is dead. Anyone have any > > > > suggestions > > > > on how to get it back without a reboot? -- ______________________________________________________________ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
