Challenge: Locked screen
I have a machine that did not exit X properly. I can telnet to it and have
used kill on everything I could - even respawned all six gettys.
The screen is X with a partially cleared netscrape(sic) window.
The mouse is dead, ctl-alt-bs and all other keys do nothing.
The last time this happened, I telnetted to it and rebooted safely. Right
now, I am ftp uploading to it via nfs and wouldn't do that for a few
hours. It would be more fruitful to know the remedy for this.
Since I have a shell open via telnet, what could I do to get my virtual
consoles short of reboot or shutdown -h now?
Here is the output of ps aux:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
daemon 754 0.0 0.0 836 0 ? SW Mar 28 2:04 rpc.portmap
root 1 0.0 0.6 816 68 ? S Mar 28 0:27 init [2]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar 28 0:03 kflushd
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Mar 28 0:15 kswapd
root 9 0.0 0.4 792 44 ? S Mar 28 0:19 update
root 174 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar 28 0:00 nfsiod
root 175 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar 28 0:00 nfsiod
root 176 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar 28 0:00 nfsiod
root 177 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar 28 0:00 nfsiod
root 756 0.0 0.1 812 16 ? S Mar 28 0:00 inetd
root 759 0.0 0.0 836 0 ? SW Mar 28 0:00 bootpd
root 765 0.0 2.8 1504 292 ? S Mar 28 6:27 courtney
root 768 0.0 1.2 1700 128 ? S Mar 28 10:07 tcpdump -l \012
root 769 0.0 0.5 820 56 ? S Mar 28 0:01 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /d
root 774 0.0 0.0 832 0 ? SW Mar 28 0:00 lpd
root 784 0.4 2.4 1192 252 ? S Mar 28 45:47 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
root 786 0.0 0.6 864 68 ? S Mar 28 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mount
root 793 0.0 1.0 832 108 ? S Mar 28 0:03 /usr/sbin/cron
root 3008 0.0 1.8 884 192 ? S Mar 30 0:01 /sbin/syslogd
root 3010 0.0 0.0 1008 0 ? SW Mar 30 0:01 klogd
root 7972 0.1 3.6 1080 380 ? S 16:28 0:01 in.telnetd
root 7976 0.0 8.9 1636 920 p2 S 16:29 0:00 bash
root 8002 0.0 2.7 808 280 6 S 16:40 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 t
root 8007 0.0 2.7 808 280 2 S 16:42 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 t
root 8010 0.0 2.7 808 280 1 S 16:42 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 t
root 8031 0.0 2.7 808 280 5 S 16:45 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 t
root 8034 0.0 2.7 808 280 4 S 16:45 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 t
root 8035 0.0 2.7 808 280 3 S 16:46 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 t
root 8038 0.0 4.0 944 420 p2 R 16:57 0:00 ps -aux
root 11667 0.0 0.3 804 36 ? S Apr 1 0:00 /sbin/kerneld
sysadmin 7973 0.0 7.5 1600 776 p2 S 16:28 0:00 -bash
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