On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 05:53:10PM +0200, Andrej Hocevar wrote: > Sorry, obviously I didn't make myself clear: according to my inittab > settings, the first available tty for X is tty11. If for some reason X > cannot shut down properly, tty11 is left with some useless character(s)
Then you must have additional logins past tty6, since I have only ever known X11 to attach to tty7, unless I change it. > which obviously forces X to attach itself to another tty (in my case > tty13) when I start it again next time. > > If I issue "deallocvt 11", it says that the device is busy. > > What can I do to clean that messy tty11 and make it usable again? What does "lsof /dev/tty11" say about any processes still using the tty? You can remove the characters by way of: setterm -reset > /dev/tty11 But this won't help it freeing up whatever is keeping it tied, hence lsof in this case. -- Thomas Adam -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
