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From: edsews!mancer!kuang!dharvey@uunet.uu.net (Doug Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Shell/cmd tools dying quietly
Keywords: Windows
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Date: 22 Apr 89 15:52:23 GMT
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Hopefully someone out there can help us out.

We have a Sun 3/260 as our server with two diskless and two diskfull
3/50's as nodes, plus a PC/AT running PC/NFS 3.0.  All the workstations
are running Sun OS 3.5.  The problem is this:

	Every once in awhile when logging on to the 3/260 (w/ hi-res mono),
	it is impossible to bring up a command tool or a shelltool.  Text-
	edit windows, mailtool, perfmeters, etc. all come up ok, but no
	shells of any kind.  We are using 'contool' but no messages ever
	appear.  

A 'ps' didn't show anything unusual (to me).  I killed the console and
then tried bringing up a shelltool, but STILL no messages.  Our only re-
course has been a reboot.  

Any ideas?


Doug Harvey

Douglas Harvey                   UUCP: {uunet.uu.net}!edsews!mancer!dharvey
Electronic Data Systems          ARPA: edsews!mancer!dharvey@uunet.uu.net
(513) 455-0365