Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!tut!santra!hemuli!tml From: tml@hemuli.UUCP (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Lines jamming on 9000/840, HP-UX 2.1 Message-ID: <3928@hemuli.UUCP> Date: 5 Mar 89 14:03:00 GMT Reply-To: tml@hemuli.UUCP (Tor Lillqvist) Organization: Tech Rsrch Cntr of Finland Lines: 18 We are having strange problems on our HP9000/840 running HP-UX 2.1. Sometimes init suddenly starts ignoring users logging out, and doesn't start new getty processes, i.e. you cannot log in again. The utmp file says that the user is still logged in. This spreads to all lines as users log out. The only remedy is to find a line that hasn't been jammed, log in as root, and /etc/shutdown -r ... Somehow I suspect that the hpdbdaemon or hpimage processes have something to do with it, as this `feature' has appeared often lately when our HPIMAGE usage has increased as deadlines come closer and we keep testing our software ... HPIMAGE causes lots of grief in other ways, too, but that's another story. By the way, what is this "Fetch data for Tony Lukes" etc you see if you do "strings