Re: junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Travis Crump
Thomas Adam wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:12:52AM +0200, Andrej Hocevar wrote: Hello, this is very disturbing -- when my X server doesn't shut down smoothly, it leaves some junk behind on the tty it was running on. The result is that next time I startx, it doesn't use the same tty anymore. Wh

Re: junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Andrej Hocevar
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:08:27AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > I would suggest (after X bombs) running: > > ~ %% sudo lsof /dev/tty11 Yes, I've tried that: nothing! I can do "setterm -reset > /dev/tty11" all right, but the problem doesn't go away. I can even switch to that tty and type some cha

Re: junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Thomas Adam
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 ha

Re: junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Stefan O'Rear
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) > which obviously

Re: junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Andrej Hocevar
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:42:06AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > I'm not sure what the problem is here. If you mean you want to surpress the > output that startx produces, do: > > startx > /dev/null 2>&1 > > If you'd rather keep it for later: > > startx > ~/.startx-output.log 2>&1 > > Or am I not

Re: junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:12:52AM +0200, Andrej Hocevar wrote: > Hello, > this is very disturbing -- when my X server doesn't shut down smoothly, > it leaves some junk behind on the tty it was running on. The result is > that next time I startx, it doesn't use the same tty anymore. > > What can

junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Andrej Hocevar
Hello, this is very disturbing -- when my X server doesn't shut down smoothly, it leaves some junk behind on the tty it was running on. The result is that next time I startx, it doesn't use the same tty anymore. What can I do to get rid of this annoying problem? Thanks, andrej -- echo