SUMMARY: Hung Console

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Original post:

>Does anybody know how to reset a "hung" console? Typing at the "login:" prompt
>is not echoed and seems to be completely ignored. I've tried killing "getty"
>but the problem persists.

Suggestions:

1) Hit CTRL-Q
2) rlogin and execute "kbd_mode -a >/dev/console" as root
3) rlogin and execute "stty sane >/dev/console" as root
4) make sure nobody is running a "fake login" program
5) rlogin and execute "startx" or "openwin" as root and then exit cleanly
6) reboot
7) kill getty

As it turns out, the problem was a loose keyboard cable (sigh) so I don't
know which of the above might have worked...

Thanks to all who responded thus far:
        Paul.Bellan-Boyer@fw.gs.com (Paul Bellan-Boyer)
        Dave Gunter <gunter@wizard.stat.ncsu.edu>
        edk@mach10.utica1.kaman.com (Edward F Killian)
        kwthomas@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu (Kevin W. Thomas)
        Hacker Esquire <warren@milner.mitre.org>
        cil@bilkent.edu.tr (Serkan Cil)
        Dave Mitchell <D.Mitchell@dcs.shef.ac.uk>

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