weird! on tty1 and tty2 [gentoo on a new box], man pages suddenly started showing up so far below the last screen, that all i got was a blank "page"; hodgson at gent hodgson $ man ps [full blank screen] : once i thought of it, typing 'b' got me up to the text; and man pages showed up fine on tty3 - tty5; i have been recently, and often, ssh'ing into a remote linux box in california from tty1 and 2, but that shouldn't have anything to do with the problem, should it? also, i use screen on tty1, but there were no screen sessions alive at the time of my tty troubles; anyway, soon, on tty1, this happened: hodgson at gent hodgson $ less /usr/include//fstab.h hodgson at gent hodgson $ ar/mail/hodgson and tty1 froze solid so, on tty4 i did this: hodgson at gent etc $ ps --tty 1 PID TTY TIME CMD 29568 vc/1 00:00:00 bash hodgson at gent etc $ kill 29568 hodgson at gent etc $ ps --tty 1 PID TTY TIME CMD 29568 vc/1 00:00:00 bash hodgson at gent etc $ kill -9 29568 hodgson at gent etc $ ps --tty 1 PID TTY TIME CMD 5835 tty1 00:00:00 agetty but tty1 was still frozen; then i pressed ScrollLock and suddenly tty1 was not frozen, but it sits resolutely on the bottom of the screen and overwrites itself with each successful line of input; for example i logged out, back in, and typed 'man ps' which yielded a ':' and nothing else, all on the bottom line; is this because i killed the shell? but then who's giving me the prompt? i guess i'll reboot and everything will be fine, but i'm a sophomore newbie and would like to know what's going on; -- _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list