Console freeze but still alive

[Jonathan Fosburgh]

>
> I also get the similar problem on my Sony Vaio notebook.
>
> Funny thing is that, console seems to be alive, and only
> text-mode output from user land processes seems to be dead.
> I can even logon from the console blindly, then type 'startx'
> to get X-Window up and running normally. ;-P
>
> Messages coming from with in the kernel seems to work ok, which
> also seems to flash the user-land messages buffered all at once.
>
> The kernel is if from 2005/2/9 00:00 JST, and user-land few weeks old.
>
I'm running -current as of yesterday and having the same problem.  X is 
working fine for me, I just can't make use of any of /dev/ttyv*.  WHen I shut 
the system down I do notice that all of the output suddenly appears and I can 
watch the shutdown generally from about the point disks start to sync. This 
is on an old HP Kayak workstation.
-- 
Jonathan Fosburgh
AIX and Storage Administrator
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX 
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