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 
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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
		[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.
		>
		> --
		> "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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