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tkdfighter

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Registered: 2009-01-28

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[solved] Restart console / tty

A friend of mine hibernated his PC. After waking it up, the virtual terminals were gone with X running fine. Is there a command to restart them without rebooting?

Last edited by tkdfighter (2009-08-10 20:14:54)

Hohoho

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Re: [solved] Restart console / tty

From inittab:

c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/6 linux

The agetty commands is what you need probably.

djszapi

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Re: [solved] Restart console / tty

and ctrl+alt+backspace for X.

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fukawi2

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Re: [solved] Restart console / tty

...with X running fine.

and ctrl+alt+backspace for X.

Probably not helpful to the OP.

If I'm not mistaken, then `init q` command will force init to re-read /etc/inittab and do anything it needs to to get back to the state that inittab specifies (ie, restart the getty's)

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tkdfighter

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2009-01-28

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Re: [solved] Restart console / tty

Sorry for the late update, it's exam season . Anyways, "/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/1 linux" solved the problem, thanks!