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console weirdness

I have to move my router into another room, which means moving the ethernet cable attached to my server. I don't want to shutdown the server as it has been running for 160 days now and God only knows what will happen if I reboot it. The server runs without any monitor or keyboard, with me just using ssh to check my mail and use irc.

The plan was, hook a keyboard and monitor to the server, shutdown networking, move the router into another room, re-route the ethernet cable from the server to the newly located router, and then restart networking. However, when I hooked up the monitor and keyboard, instead of seeing a console login prompt, I see some image of a building. I have no idea what this image is and what its doing there, but I cannot switch to a virtual console and cannot find a process that is displaying it. There are some Xfree packages installed(xfree86-common xlibs xlibs-data) but they are only there to satisfy some dependencies. I have never configured X or installed a screensaver of any kind.

[root@lemonjelly:~]# ps fax
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    1 ?        S      0:09 init [2]         
    2 ?        SN     0:01 [ksoftirqd/0]
    3 ?        S<     0:03 [events/0]
    4 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [khelper]
    5 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [kacpid]
   33 ?        S<     1:24  \_ [kblockd/0]
   46 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [aio/0]
 5064 ?        S      0:47  \_ [pdflush]
32707 ?        S      0:28  \_ [pdflush]
   45 ?        S      9:10 [kswapd0]
  188 ?        S      0:00 [kseriod]
  294 ?        S      3:47 [kjournald]
  556 ?        S      0:02 [kjournald]
  767 ?        S      0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
  768 ?        S      0:00 [ahc_dv_0]
  813 ?        S      0:00 [khubd]
 1609 ?        Ss     0:00 dhclient3 -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf
                      /var/run/dhclient.eth0.leases eth0
 1896 ?        Ss     0:22 /sbin/syslogd
 1899 ?        Ss     0:00 /sbin/klogd
 1904 ?        Ss     0:59 /sbin/apcupsd
 1908 ?        S      0:00 dictd 1.9.15: 1/46
 2206 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/hddtemp -S 3600 /dev/hdb
 2211 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
 2236 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
 2239 ?        Ss     0:03 /usr/sbin/cron
 2268 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
 2269 tty2     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
 2271 tty4     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
 2272 tty5     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
 2273 tty6     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
 7049 ?        Ss     4:45 /usr/sbin/timeoutd
 7017 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
10013 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ sshd: orchid [priv]
10015 ?        S      0:00      \_ sshd: orchid@pts/0
10016 pts/0    Ss     0:00          \_ -zsh-beta
10124 pts/0    S      0:00              \_ bash
10150 pts/0    S      0:01                  \_ zsh
12775 pts/0    R+     0:00                      \_ ps fax
 3240 ?        Ss    22:19 SCREEN
 3241 pts/1    Ss+    0:02  \_ /bin/zsh-beta
 3242 pts/2    Ss+    0:00  \_ /bin/zsh-beta
 3243 pts/3    Ss     0:00  \_ /bin/zsh-beta
30238 pts/3    S+     7:40  |   \_ emacs -nw
30270 ?        Ss     0:00  |       \_ /usr/bin/aspell -a -m -d en
                      --encoding=utf-8
 3244 pts/4    Ss+    0:04  \_ /bin/zsh-beta
 3250 pts/5    Ss+    0:00  \_ /bin/zsh-beta
 3252 pts/6    Ss+    0:00  \_ /bin/zsh-beta
 3253 pts/8    Ss+    0:00  \_ /bin/bash /home/orchid/bin/tail.auth.sh
 3274 pts/8    S+     0:01  |   \_ tail --follow=name /var/log/auth.log
 3275 pts/8    S+     1:52  |   \_ ccze
 3254 pts/9    Ss+    0:00  \_ /bin/bash /home/orchid/bin/tail.mail.sh
 3280 pts/9    S+     0:01  |   \_ tail --follow=name /var/log/exim4/mainlog
 3281 pts/9    S+     2:08  |   \_ ccze
 3270 pts/10   Ss+  175:16  \_ top
17233 pts/7    Ss+    0:00  \_ -su
19435 ?        Ss     0:13 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
19437 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
19438 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/smbd -D
27674 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
 9899 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd -s
12595 tty3     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3

I now have to figure out how to login to this machine and get rid of whatever is causing this. Have I been rooted perhaps? by architects? This is really odd. Last week something equally weird happened on my backup server, I turned it off, unplugged it from the wall, yet the power supply fan and CPU fan continued to run for like 20 minutes, I don't know where they were getting power from, and I even stopped them with a pencil, but they spun right back up as soon as I took the pencil away. I never did figure that one out and just booted the machine back up.