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
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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 9:39 AM
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> 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.
>
> --
> "He's old enough to know what's right and young enough not to
> choose it.
> He's strong enough to win the world and weak enough to lose
> it." - Neal
> Peart
>
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