Every now and then, while running dosemu in a shell, I can
run something that crashes dosemu in a way that freezes the
linux tty.

If I then restart the tty with a kill -9 <pid of hung
shell> from another shell, I do get a Login: prompt back, but
its a dead end!

Anything I type creates a blurb of high/low ascii characters
that are uninterpretable/unseen by the cmd processor (ie. one
can not escape to any other tty using alt-Fn or ctrl-c or
ctrl-alt-del, etc.).

I was wondering if something like embedding a reset command in
my /etc/profile would be the correct way to go?

TonyB

Hufnus wrote:
>
> Anything I type creates a blurb of high/low ascii characters
> that are uninterpretable/unseen by the cmd processor (ie. one
> can not escape to any other tty using alt-Fn or ctrl-c or
> ctrl-alt-del, etc.).
>
> I was wondering if something like embedding a reset command in
> my /etc/profile would be the correct way to go?

Did you try to just type: reset
Even if you can't read the command you type it should reset
the tty to a sane state, unless your key bindings have been
changed too by the crashed program.

Regards,

Kees.

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Kees Theunissen.