I hope your reboot recovered your console; please report?
btw to clear the console buffer, just hit return. the problem occurs when someone hits any non-CR transmissable key and walks away. while in this condition, incoming console messages are buffered but with a finite buffer; when it fills ugly things happen. good habit to hit return when leaving the console.
further btw I don't know that moving a console to another device via CONSOLE <ldev> would clear a console hung this way; it might well just transfer the same busy condition to the new device. The console is in the process of receiving a command and it's waiting for a CR to end it.
and back to reality I think the fact you were able to receive console messages indicates this was NOT the state of your console.
Tracy Pierce
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> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Console not responding
>
> 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
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> >> ________________________________
> >>
> >> 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
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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
> >> > 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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