chvt makes two ioctl calls, one to change the VT and one to wait for the
new VT to become active.  There's a race condition here; if something
changes the VT back before the second ioctl, chvt will block
indefinitely (or until something else changes to the correct VT).

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  chvt sometimes hangs, causing hibernation to fail

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