[NTLUG:Discuss] How to revive local console

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> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:52:24 -0500
> From: Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com>
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] How to revive local console
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> I'm running Ubuntu 9.04.  Sometimes I leave it for 10-20 minutes (or
> more) and when I come back, the screen saver is frozen and everything
> seems to be locked up on the local console.  However, everything seems
> to be running.  I can ssh in from another machine and all looks OK.
> I've tried killing things off to try to get the local console back to
> no avail.
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> Any ideas on how I can revive the local console without rebooting the
> machine?  When I kill the screen saver, the screen generally goes
> black.  Even if I can get it to come back to a login or something.
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> Thanks for any comments.
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> Michael


I have the same problem with Ubuntu 8.10.  Would appreciate knowing about
this as well.

Robert