restarting a virtual terminal

[Anton Markov]

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Hi Jon,

First, switch to tty2 and try typing in "reset" blindly. It may help
unfreeze the terminal. Also try doing a "ps aux | grep tty2" and kill
all processes running on the terminal (there should be a bash or
equivalent process that you have to kill with a "KILL" signal "kill -s
KILL <pid>"). In theory once the shell exits, init should restart the
mingetty process (or whatever your /etc/inittab) file says. That should
give you a login prompt.

I am no expert on virtual consoles, so someone else may be able to give
you a more elegant way of doing it.

Jon Thiele wrote:
> on my redhat v7.3 server, i had a midnight commander (mc) program
freeze on
> me in virtual terminal session (tty2).  for some reason, it stopped
> responding to all keystrokes.  i logged into another terminal, found the
> process id and used the kill command to end the process.  how do i now
> restart tty2???  my redhat manual and google are somewhat silent on
this...


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