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From: mikej@lilink.com (Michael R. Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: VPIX hangups
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.010231.10650@lilink.com>
Date: 10 Apr 90 01:02:31 GMT
References: <807@zeusa.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikej@lilink.com (Michael R. Johnston)
Organization: Lilink Communications, Long Island NY
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In article <807@zeusa.UUCP> hendrik@zeusa.UUCP (Hendrik Vermooten) writes:
>From time to time my VP/IX (update 1.1.1) freezes the console screen and
>keyboard. The terminals keep running happily, though.
>
>Surely there is some way of livening things up again from another terminal,
>like sending some signal to some process?

Try:
	ps -t ttywhatever

[get the pid of the 'vpix' process]

    kill -1 vpixpid

kill -1 pid usually does the trick for killing a vpix process. However, I'm
not sure that that will unfreeze the console. Others have suggested (SCO
included) that you unplug the keyboard for a second and then plug it back.
Sounds a bit fishy to me. Perhaps this problem has been lessened in the
newest release of VP/ix, version 1.2. It has lots of other nifty features
as well which may make it worth the price of admission. 
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