Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-12 Thread pmackinney
> > > > here are some relevant tips from my collection-- > > > > > > When all else, like "reset" fails, I can (literally) blindly type: > > >echo -e \\033c > > > > > > It fixes most cases of terminal state corruption. > > > > really? "reset" can fail -- but "echo c" can fix it? > > i'm gonn

Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-12 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:51:23AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:56:31PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:39:04PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > here are some relevant tips from my collection-- > > > > When all else, like "reset" fails, I can (

Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-12 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:56:31PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:39:04PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > here are some relevant tips from my collection-- > > When all else, like "reset" fails, I can (literally) blindly type: >echo -e \\033c > > It fixes most cases of

Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-12 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:39:04PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > here are some relevant tips from my collection-- When all else, like "reset" fails, I can (literally) blindly type: echo -e \\033c It fixes most cases of terminal state corruption. Cheers, Joost

Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-12 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:13:58AM -0400, John Bacalle wrote: > This happens from time to time to me, I hit some errand keystroke and > the tty I'm on starts to display unintelligible junk. Login out does not > help. ^L, or ^J do not help. As root, 'kill -9 {aberrant getty pid}' > does not help. Sh

Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-05 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, John Bacalle wrote: > Sh_t, man! I like to find the hardest door jam I can typically get a > hold of and bang my head on it for a long while before I ask someone on > the other side to let me in. But, in this case I should've hollered much > earlier. ;+) 'reset' did the trick!

Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-05 Thread Lamer
ot;Debian Users List" Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 2:29 PM Subject: Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish > On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:13:58AM -0400, John Bacalle wrote: > > This happens from time to time to me, I hit some errand keystroke and > > the tty I'm on starts to display

Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:13:58AM -0400, John Bacalle wrote: > This happens from time to time to me, I hit some errand keystroke and > the tty I'm on starts to display unintelligible junk. Login out does not > help. ^L, or ^J do not help. As root, 'kill -9 {aberrant getty pid}' > does not help. Sh