Gehang writes:

>  Friday afternoon our hp locked up. Freezing all of our users,
>  and even the console attached directly to the hp.
>  I wasn't here but the manager was, and he said nothing unusual
>  was happening at the time and he tried everything to get it to
>  go to go. He ended up just powering down the system with the key
>  and rebooting.

In these situations, anything you say is just a wild guess, but I can tell
you how to create this kind of situation, even though it may not be your
particular problem.

If a user -- for whatever reason -- grabs the console function and then
begins typing something but doesn't finish with a carriage return -- and then walks
away from his terminal, leaving it in that state, the console message buffer
will eventually fill up. Once that happens, voila, everyone else's terminals
"freeze up" just as you describe, including the one that you think is the
console.

The cure is: don't do that.

Wirt Atmar

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