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==Killing a Hung Virtual Console== This tip shows you how to restore a hung virtual console (without rebooting). To do this, you need the lsof tool. Using lsof, find the login processes of the hung console. Code Listing 1: Example: (hung console is /dev/vc/3) # lsof /dev/vc/3 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME login 7114 root 0u CHR 4,3 17 /dev/vc/3 login 7114 root 1u CHR 4,3 17 /dev/vc/3 login 7114 root 2u CHR 4,3 17 /dev/vc/3 zsh 30630 david 0u CHR 4,3 17 /dev/vc/3 zsh 30630 david 1u CHR 4,3 17 /dev/vc/3 zsh 30630 david 2u CHR 4,3 17 /dev/vc/3 zsh 30630 david 10u CHR 4,3 17 /dev/vc/3 Kill the processes associated with this login and the console should respawn. Code Listing 2: Killing the virtual console processes # kill -9 7114 30630 From http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20031124-newsletter.xml
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