Problems with console locking and mwm stopping

[Steve Faiwiszewski]

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).

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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 -



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