[svlug] How to get Console/TTYs back

[Sanatan Rai]

On 15 August 2013 22:08, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
> Quoting Sanatan Rai (sanatan at gmail.com):
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>> Is there some way of `getting the console back'?
>
> >
> > I'm pretty sure rebooting will fix this, but that seems too drastic.
> >
> > I can remote into the box from another machine, so am happy to leave it
> > running.
>
> Well, if you can ssh in, then you can kill the X server process, right?

   Indeed, I did do so. The process is dead's a doorknob.

> Doing so _should_ permit the physical console's getty processes to
> reassert themselves.

This they haven't done. Perhaps something isn't set up correctly?


--Sanatan

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