topic Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back in Operating System - HP-UX

How can I get my promt on the consol back

Jan Studsgaard_2 — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 05:36:20 GMT

I working every day on the HP9000 server,
but most of the time remote, the reason is that the consol have no promt.
Can anyone telle me how I get my promt back on the consol.
I now this is basic, but i used over a hour yesterday, only to get my promt back.

Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back

Santosh Nair_1 — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 05:39:37 GMT

What do you get at the console? Try typing "co" at the console to get the login prompt back. If that doesn't work, post more details on what you do see at the console.

-Santosh

Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back

Jan Studsgaard_2 — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 05:52:12 GMT

The cursor is only blinking.
I can write on the consol, and I have all the menus in the botton on the screen. All the menus in the botton is active. I can go into the terminal config, but without success.

Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back

Robin Wakefield — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 05:59:22 GMT

Hi Jan,

Have you tried power cycling the console?

Rgds, Robin

Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back

Animesh Chakraborty — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 05:59:26 GMT

Hi,
I guess your console is in LOCAL mode.
Make it REMOTE*

Best of luck
Animesh

Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back

Santosh Nair_1 — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 06:01:32 GMT

If neither of the above suggestions work, try turning off the console, holding down control-D and then turning on the console holding these buttons down. You should soon hear a beep. This will reset the console to factory defaults and hopefully get it working again.

-Santosh

Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back

Jan Studsgaard_2 — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 06:28:54 GMT

I have tryed all the good idea??s you came up with, but it is still the same.
The console is already running in Remote Mode.
I thing I have setup the default settings 10 times at least.

Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back

KapilRaj — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 06:34:37 GMT

Your options are,

01. Press F4
02. Press CTRL + Q

good luck

kaps

Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back

Animesh Chakraborty — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 06:35:09 GMT

Hi,
Try to kill the getty of the console
#ps -ef|grep console
# root 13506 1 0 Sep 28 console 0:00 /usr/sbin/getty console console
#kill -9 13506

Best of luck
Animesh

Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back

Michael Tully — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 06:47:57 GMT

Hi,

There are two things that you can do.
First kill off any processes that may still be running:

# ps -ef | grep console
Kill of the appropriate processes
# kill -5

You should be able to do a control-B in any case.

Good Luck
-Michael

Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:13:52 GMT

This would by my way of looking at it
0 > stty sane

1 > Ctrl B - CO (BCH)

2 > Esc shift q (vi)

3 > power off - hold D -power on - beep - release D

4 > Ctrl C (hold it down)

5 > Tab (sam/swinstall)

6 > Ctrl E cf (lan/gsp console)

6 > from telnet in
who -T
look for console
ps -ef | grep shell at console
kill hung ps ( or shell )

7 > verify inittab

8 > reboot!?

Later,
Bill

Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back

Jan Studsgaard_2 — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:25:47 GMT

As I mentioned I normaly goes Remote on the server, but the specific server am mentioned in this case,I normaly goes the consol way, because I can??t run a telnet or ftp to the server. The NFS services working perfect, Samba working perfect, Print services working perfect.
Everything seems to work OK, but the consol and telnet servies is not working. :-(
My problem is that I can??t reboot the server, because I have problems every times I reboot the server, the boot sequence can??t mount the drives devices automaticaly.

Re: How can I get my promt on the consol back

Santosh Nair_1 — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:27:31 GMT

Check that the telnet services are enabled in /etc/inetd.conf. If not, set it up and restart inetd (inetd -c). This should start up telnet.

What kind of errors are you getting when trying to mount the devices? Check /etc/rc.log for errors.

-Santosh