When the X server crashes......

[C Lance Moxley]

In article <1991Feb5.213112.5369 at julius.cs.uiuc.edu> kougiour at cs.uiuc.edu (Panagiotis Kougiouris) writes:
>Sometimes, when I run some X applications on my PS/2 under AIX1.2 
>my X-server crashes. I cannot interact with the console any more.
>If I login from another machine, the system is still up but all the
>processes related with the X-server including the server are non-existent.
>
>Is there any way to recover the console without rebooting the system? I would
>be grateful if somebody could help me on this. Thanks Panos
>

Someone posted this awhile back and it works for me, login from
somewhere else and issue:

	tput -Thft clear > /dev/console
			or
	tput -Thft clear > /dev/hft

Lance