Answers to: Revive Dead Consoles after Suspend

Answer by udot

udot — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:04:33 -0400

Have been googling an LVM question on Slackware and came across this great slackware tips and tricks with explicit instructions on tweaking a couple may apply: link text

What run level are you using? I don't use KDE although its installed but sometimes Xserver blinks out and I alt ctrl till I get another terminal then shutdown as root. Are you using a laptop or desktop? Wireless keyboard or PS2? Caps lock blinking - batteries for the keyboard? $ps aux shows tty7 as root. For me first line is tty3 and tty1 the one i am using. Do you have 3 or 4'initdefault'... Goto the above link it will walk you through your startup 'display manager' settings, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.4 and change the order of preferred display managers, so kdm is first. Let us know if it works ;) Problem solve in this post: link text

Answer by memnoch_proxy

memnoch_proxy — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:22:44 -0400

I would attempt to boot without framebuffer console graphics mode. The kernel switch to turn that off should be "nofb". I don't know if Slack uses a graphical boot mode (like the rhgb option), but if it does, I would turn that off as well.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=49005

Answer by Jub

Jub — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:40:17 -0400

I've never heard of a problem like that. Those other consoles could be in use... possibly..? Try:

cat /etc/passwd | cut -d":" -f1

and then run:

top

The first should list all your users and the second all processes... See if any are actually logged into and using another console