How to restart a freezed tty?

[Brian A. Seklecki]

On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 13:16 +0330, Bahman M. wrote:
> Hi all,
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> For some reason all the ttys are frozen up; I can switch between X and
> them back and forth but not between the ttys themselves using ALT+Fn.

Can you start new xterms?  When you say 'frozen', do they "not accept
keyboard input"?  Is it possible scroll-lock is enabled?  What about the
TTY that you started Xorg from?

Is this temporal? When did it start happening?  

Is there anything in /var/log/messages?

Did you try: $ sudo pkill -HUP init ?

~BAS

> I tried killing them; they terminate and restart but still
> frozen.  I don't believe the only way out is to restart the system.
> 
> How to make ttys behave normally?  I'd appreciate any idea.
> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 
> xorg-7.2
> fluxbox-1.0rc3_3
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Bahman
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