Thanks for all your replies.  We tried them all and nothing worked, so we
had to bring the system down and back up.  Someone had entered a file
equation to a device from the console and misspelled it.  The session seemed
to become hung after he pressed return.

Barbara


-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Jeff Kell
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 12:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Console locked up


John Burke wrote:

>>Our console/operator.sys session is locked up.  The device is
>>unavailable
>>and we can't abort it.  Nothing works on the keyboard.  We
>>can switch the
>>console to another device and have the console capabilities.  Is there
>>anything we can do to free this session or abort it?

Often just a <ctl>-Q will do it, or just hitting return.

Jeff

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