On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:06:27PM +0100, Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
Jonathon McDowell wrote:
Pet hate. It's Jonathan. That's the most common way of spelling the name. There are some Jonathon's but they're vastly in the minority.
If I leave my debian box on, I come in in the morning to find the screen displaying erratic debugging messages to do with pg_indexes and suchlike, with letters omitted, where I had left the login prompt.
At a guess you have postgres installed and PGDEBUG is not set to zero and POSTGRES_LOG isn't set in /etc/postgresql/postmaster.init
It seems to have made the box go crazy, - all the consoles look like miniature galaxies and half the keyboard letters won't respond, meaning i can't log in, or shutdown cleanly.
Hmm. That sounds like something else. I've always found that it hasn't affected input, just written crud over the screen. I assume you've tried logging in blind?
Will I have to crash out here? Bum.
If you have Magic SysRQ support compiled in try:
ALT-SysRQ-r
and see if that helps. If it doesn't:
ALT-SysRQ-s ALT-SysRQ-u
to sync and remount reonly the disks.
Or if you can log in remotely:
reset < /dev/tty1
perhaps.
J.