Toby Jaffey wrote:

You could try restarting the getty for that console.

do a "ps ax | grep tty1" and kill that process. I think that init should restart it for you, if not do something like "/sbin/getty 38400 tty1".

Thanks. I've tried this, but it restarts a new process number for getty each time witht he screen showing the same. John Seago wrote:

on my system, (Slackware) ^U is the backspace key in SOME circumstances.

Also tried this one, to no avail. Thanks, though. I'm about to make a new kernel so I will be rebooting the box anyway, but it is an annoying problem that it would be nicer to have known how to mend. Jenny.