Here's another strange situation that I've not seen before, BUT ... I found the solution and will share it here in case someone else has the problem.
In brief: tty1 had no cursor. I could type on it but had no idea of the cursor's position. There was also no cursor in text-based applications invoked on that terminal. Google searches with variants of the search string found a hit that explained what might have happened and gave the solution. Apparently, trying to cat a binary file or doing other unusual things can upset the terminal and cause the cursor to be lost. The solution is to log in on that terminal and type 'reset' (without the quotes, of course) to restore the setterm values, including the missing cursor. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
