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From: hubler@galaxy.lerc.nasa.gov (Dale Hubler)
Subject: Re: Problems with console locking and mwm stopping
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.114859.7776@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 11:48:59 GMT

In article <1991Jun10.210318.18087@bony1.bony.com> stevef@bony1.bony.com (Steve Faiwiszewski) writes:
>In article <1991Jun6.232937.2834@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> guidry@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David A Guidry) writes:
>>
>>1)  A user is plugging away happily at the console and the console locks
>>up.  No mouse movement, no response to the keyboard, NOTHING.  How can I
>>reset the terminal from a remote location without rebooting the offending
>>machine.  Killing off alll the user processes doesn't help at all.  If the
>>terminal cannot be reset without rebooting, is there a way to reboot
>>without having to insert the key to the machine (I'd like to be able to
>>handle these minor emergencies from home).
>
>>David A. Guidry       |    On a clear disk, you      |       empire
>
>Same happens on our Model 320 (with 24 Meg) running 3005.  Once in a
>while the X server running on the console seems to freeze (mouse dead
>too), and nothing short of a reboot seems to help.  Killing mwm does
>no good at all.  Anyone else see this?
>
>        - Steve -
>

We too have found that the XServer dies often enough, especially if the
user has a bitmap in their root window.  Try the following command to 
clear the console, typically the user has no processes going;

tput -Thft clear > /dev/hft

This command has saved me a lot of reboots.

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