How to restart a freezed tty?

[Bahman M.]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:09:40 -0400
"Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 13:16 +0330, Bahman M. wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 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 ?

Yes.  It killed X and got me to the frozen terminals.  There I could do
nothing (no shell) but pressing the power button!

"The case is closed" :-)

> > 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

Thanks for your time.

Bahman