> XFree86 crashed on me and left all my pcvt consoles in a weird state
> (they're in graphics mode) and I have no idea of how to get them back
> without a reboot.  I restarted X over the network and it's working fine -
> it's just the other virtual consoles that don't work.  Any ideas?

Have you tried "scon -c 1; sleep 3; scon -c 0" ?
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