dev <devuan.2@???> writes:

> On 03/07/2016 11:28 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> :: Step 1 is this:
> ::
> :: ps ax | grep getty
>
>
> Thanks Steve. Mine is:
>

> $ ps ax | grep getty
>  2575 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
>  2576 tty2     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
>  2577 tty3     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
>  2578 tty4     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
>  2579 tty5     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
>  2580 tty6     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
>  6301 pts/7    S+     0:00 grep getty

JFTR: The point of the [] in

ps faux | grep get[t]y

was that it eliminates the grep itself from the output.

You could try killing one of them and then switching to the VT. init
should restart it which may cause it to become alive again. Pressing
enter a couple of times might also help as the first should cause the
getty to hand control over to login and the second should cause a login
failure followed by getty being restarted.