On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 03:07:54PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 01:43:23AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I logged out of fvwm, and hence X, tty3 (the tty where X was > > running) displayed this at the top of the screen: > > > > enabled, not active [unchanged] > > I happen to recognise that as a message from laptop-mode-tools. It's > telling you that laptop-mode is enabled (in other words available), but > not active (probably because you're on mains) and that this hasn't > been changed by the event that triggered the check.
Weird! This is the first time I've seen this. Mind you, this was the first time that X started in tty3, it always started in tty7 or tty8. > > > > Is this normal or a bug? > > > > How do I regain the use of this tty as a text console? > > I would try pressing Enter a few times (if a getty is on that terminal, > that should cause it to re-display the "login:" prompt). Or, failing > that, use the SAK (Either Alt+SysRq+K That displays: [2684081.414926] SysRq : Changing Loglevel [2684081.415271] Loglevel set to 2 I tried it again, and it worked!! THANKS!! But I can't replicate it! *Damn*, I still keep getting this: [2684081.414926] SysRq : Changing Loglevel [2684081.415271] Loglevel set to 2 I get this occasionally: tal% [2685258.014222] SysRq : HELP : loglevel(0-9) reBoot Crash terminate-all-tasks(E) memory-full-oom-kill(F) kill-all-tasks(I) thaw-filesystems(J) saK show-backtrace-all-active-cpus(L) show-memory-usage(M) nice-all-RT-tasks(N) powerOff show-registers(P) show-all-timers(Q) unRaw Sync show-task-states(T) Unmount force-fb(V) show-blocked-tasks(W) dump-ftrace-buffer(Z) > or Ctrl+Alt+Pause) which will kill That displays: ^[[P^[[P^[[P^[[P^[[P Ctrl+Alt+Pause doesn't do anything for me, pity as it would be far easier! -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140711135301.GE19563@tal
