F1-F6 terminals fubar'd

jaa1180 · 10-07-2004, 07:25 AM

I have seen this before and cannot remember how to fix this...
My F1-F6 terminals are messed up... meaning I see kernel messages on all of them in the last 1/4 of the screen.

I have done a
<code>
# kill -HUP 1
# kill -HUP <pid>
</code>
I have not reboot because... well I should not have to.
I know there is a way to reset or restart the terminals but I don't know how.

IDEAS?

_kossak_ · 10-07-2004, 09:22 AM

You should try running
/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
.
.
.
/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

If that doesn' t work try changing the kernel runlevel (careful - make sure you don't reboot or shutdown!)

Hope this could be useful

jaa1180 · 10-07-2004, 09:29 AM

I can use the terminals but the cursor is where the prompt is, and if I do a listing of some sort... ps -A or ls -l, the screen has tons of funkey colors squares at the bottom half of the screen and blinking characters in some of them.

Is this making sense?

I can log into them but cannot really use them because it seems they need to be restarted or something.

_kossak_ · 10-07-2004, 09:41 AM

Have you tried

$reset

?

jaa1180 · 10-07-2004, 10:19 AM

yes... does not work.
How can I get a screen shot of the terminal... I could put it on my site to view it.
Any other ideas?

_kossak_ · 10-07-2004, 01:33 PM

The screenshot isn't needed because I understand what's happening.
Unfortunatelly I'm out of ideas by now

If you come up with a solution please let me know.

jaa1180 · 10-11-2004, 10:50 AM

I guess reboot... LOL
I don't know anything else.
(in megaphone) helllloooo. anyone got an idea on how to fix this??