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.

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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. -- /-\ | C:\Dos . . . C\Dos\Run . . . |@/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer | Run\Dos\Run \- |