sometimes terminals get messed up. do 'reset' in the broken terminal and it should be all good'n'jolly again peter wrote: > > weird! on tty1 and tty2 [gentoo on a new box], man pages suddenly > started showing up so far below the last screen, that all i got was a > blank "page"; > > hodgson at gent hodgson $ man ps > [full blank screen] > : > > once i thought of it, typing 'b' got me up to the text; and man pages > showed up fine on tty3 - tty5; > > i have been recently, and often, ssh'ing into a remote linux box in > california from tty1 and 2, but that shouldn't have anything to do > with the problem, should it? > > also, i use screen on tty1, but there were no screen sessions alive at > the time of my tty troubles; > > anyway, soon, on tty1, this happened: > > hodgson at gent hodgson $ less /usr/include//fstab.h > > hodgson at gent hodgson $ ar/mail/hodgson > > and tty1 froze solid > > so, on tty4 i did this: > > hodgson at gent etc $ ps --tty 1 > PID TTY TIME CMD > 29568 vc/1 00:00:00 bash > hodgson at gent etc $ kill 29568 > hodgson at gent etc $ ps --tty 1 > PID TTY TIME CMD > 29568 vc/1 00:00:00 bash > hodgson at gent etc $ kill -9 29568 > hodgson at gent etc $ ps --tty 1 > PID TTY TIME CMD > 5835 tty1 00:00:00 agetty > > but tty1 was still frozen; > > then i pressed ScrollLock and suddenly tty1 was not frozen, but it sits > resolutely on the bottom of the screen and overwrites itself with each > successful line of input; for example i logged out, back in, and typed 'man > ps' which yielded a ':' and nothing else, all on the bottom line; > > is this because i killed the shell? > > but then who's giving me the prompt? > > i guess i'll reboot and everything will be fine, but i'm a sophomore > newbie and would like to know what's going on; _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list