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daryl@stone.oz.au (Daryl Sayers) writes:

>I have a sparc LX running Solaris 2.3. I had some problems so I exited
>from openwin expecting to get a logon back. The X server did not exit
>so from a remote terminal I killed it. I got the logon back but now
>when I hit return I keep getting garbage like ^@^@^@^@ etc. Every
>now and then the login propt will appear. I can send info to the screen
>like:
>    ls -la > /dev/console
>and all is well but when I
>    cat < /dev/console
>I see the same garbage on my remote terminal. Whats going wrong....
>Restarting the machine is NOT an option at the moment as there is a
>process that has been running for a month with still a few weeks of
>computations to go.

You may need to do several things:

	- make sure no process has /dev/console open.
	- run kbd_mode -a on the machine
	- don't use kill -9 next time you kill the X server.
	  (actually, *never* use -9, unless you have tried -HUP and -TERM
	  first or you have a compelling reason to use SIGKILL)



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