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Nope, definitely not in block mode.

On 7/8/10, Robert Schlosser <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Is the terminal in BLOCK MODE? It does not seem likely as you say it
> responds to ctrl-B, just a thought.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Mark Landin
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 9:43 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Console not responding
>
> CTRL-Q had no effect either...
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Johnson, Tracy
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Grabbing the console will have solved the old fashioned console buffer
>> problem.  (At least the system isn't hung.)
>>
>> For giggles, have you tried a Control-Q?
>>
>>
>> Tracy Johnson
>> Office 1-757-766-4318
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>>        From: Mark Landin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>        Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 10:20 AM
>>        To: Johnson, Tracy
>>        Cc: [log in to unmask]
>>        Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Console not responding
>>
>>
>>        - No replies pending on console.
>>        - All volume sets and disk devices are available, healthy, and
>> not full.
>>        - There is no active session on LDEV 20, but checking :SHOWDEV
>> again shows it as "UNAVAIL", by "SYS: #1". I did an ABORTIO on that LDEV
>> until it confirmed there was no more I/O..now the console will not
>> respond to a CRTL-A anymore, although it will to a CTRL-B.
>>        - I swtiched the console to my device temporarily, and now
>> cannot switch console back to LDEV 20 as it says "Device is owned by
>> another process".
>>
>>        We are on MPE/iX 6.5
>>
>>        I expect we're going to schedule a reboot, but will probably
>> have to wait until the weekend.
>>
>>
>>        On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Johnson, Tracy
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>                Any number of things.
>>
>>                It could be in the middle of a program that is hung.
>> For any reason.
>>
>>                It could be in the middle of a program waiting for a
>> REPLY, (Control-A,
>>                RECALL may fix that.)
>>
>>                You could be out of disc space.  Which may be highly
>> likely if you had a
>>                MOD 20 failure.  A Volume_Set could be inadvertently
>> dismounted.
>>                (Symptoms are similar to out of disc space conditions.)
>>
>>                Tracy Johnson
>>                Office 1-757-766-4318
>>                [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>
>>                > -----Original Message-----
>>                > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
>>                > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark
>> Landin
>>                > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 9:39 AM
>>                > To: [log in to unmask]
>>                > Subject: [HP3000-L] Console not responding
>>                >
>>
>>                > Hey folks.
>>                >
>>                > We have a 700/96 connected to our 939KS/020 as the
>> console.
>>                > This morning, we
>>                > can't get a login prompt on it. We can Ctrl-B just
>> fine, we
>>                > see console
>>                > messages, and showdev looks normal. We checked the
>> terminal
>>                > and datacomm
>>                > config ... all OK. We even hooked up another known
>> good
>>                > 700/96, and get the
>>                > same behavior.
>>                >
>>                > A bit of recent history ... we recently had an
>> overtemp
>>                > condition in our
>>                > machine room on Tuesday, and the system shut down. The
>> Model
>>                > 20 we have
>>                > connected wouldn't come back up until we replaced one
>> of the
>>                > (supposedly
>>                > redundant?) SP's, and then the machine seemed to boot
>> fine.
>>                > It ran without
>>                > incident the rest of Tuesday and all day yesterday.
>>                >
>>                > So, any ideas? I vaguely remember reading about
>> problems if
>>                > the console
>>                > buffer filled up, but don't recall any details,
>> especially
>>                > how to clear that
>>                > condition if, in fact, it exists.
>>                >
>>                > --
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>> not to
>>                > choose it.
>>                > He's strong enough to win the world and weak enough to
>> lose
>>                > it." - Neal
>>                > Peart
>>                >
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