Problems with console locking and mwm stopping

[Paul Viscuso]

In article <1991Jun10.210318.18087 at bony1.bony.com>, stevef at bony1.bony.com (Steve Faiwiszewski) writes:
|> In article <1991Jun6.232937.2834 at casbah.acns.nwu.edu> guidry at casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David A Guidry) writes:
|> >I'm working as assistant sysadmin on our local net of RS6000s.  We have
|> >three 320s (2 with 8Meg RAM, one with 16) and four Xstation 120s.  We are
|> >runing AIX 3.1.1 on these puppies.  I have two big problems with things 
|> >that happen on them.  The 16 Megger monitors the logins on the four 
|> >Xstations and also holds the nfs mounted /u partition.
|> >
|> >1)  A user is plugging away happily at the console and the console locks
|> >up.  No mouse movement, no response to the keyboard, NOTHING.  How can I
|> >reset the terminal from a remote location without rebooting the offending
|> >machine.  Killing off alll the user processes doesn't help at all.  If the
|> >terminal cannot be reset without rebooting, is there a way to reboot
|> >without having to insert the key to the machine (I'd like to be able to
|> >handle these minor emergencies from home).
|> 
|> >David A. Guidry       |    On a clear disk, you      |       empire

|> Same happens on our Model 320 (with 24 Meg) running 3005.  Once in a
|> while the X server running on the console seems to freeze (mouse dead
|> too), and nothing short of a reboot seems to help.  Killing mwm does
|> no good at all.  Anyone else see this?
|> 
|>         - Steve -

I've also had this behavior on the console of a model 530.  I increased the 
page space and the problem seems to have gone away.
Paul Viscuso
Cornell Theory Center