Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:47:46 +0400 | From | "Alexander V. Lukyanov" <> | Subject | suspended X -> dead console |
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One user has hit this occasionally:
1. startx 2. switch back to text console from which startx was executed 3. ^Z (X suspends) 4. Alt-F7 (to the console where X lives)
console is dead at this point (2.2.11). kill -CONT over net helped it.
Would something like this patch be useful? (completely untested yet) --- vt.c Thu Jul 22 18:34:18 1999 +++ vt.c Mon Aug 16 20:43:55 1999 @@ -1235,6 +1235,9 @@ */ if (vt_cons[fg_console]->vt_mode.mode == VT_PROCESS) { + /* first try to un-suspend the process */ + kill_proc(vt_cons[fg_console]->vt_pid, SIGCONT); + /* * Send the signal as privileged - kill_proc() will * tell us if the process has gone or something else
-- Alexander.
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