HELP! Console not setup... illegible

[Jerry Friend_1]

Help! I am a newbie to system admin and Unix.

I managed to go into SAM from our console and it appears that the display and keyboard settings are misconfigured. This is a 9000 K 100 server. I have tried to use tab and the up arrow key to exit back out of SAM but almost every keystroke it make displays gibberish to the monitor. Can I simply kill the SAM process from a remote terminal as root or what do you suggest I do? Also how can I properly setup the console to avoid this in the future?

[Jerry Friend_1]

Whoops, forgot to mention that we are running HPUX 10.20.

[John Palmer]

As it's the console, you don't need to kill off sam.

Try resetting the console to factory defaults:-

- power it off
- hold down the 'd' key
- power it back on

You should then be able to quit sam normally.

Regards,
John

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jerry:

Power off the console (terminal!) and while holding down the "d" key, power the terminal back on. When you hear a beep, release the key. This should reset the console to factory defaults.

...JRF...

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Friend

Please press the D key and switch off the console and switch it back on . At the bottom you will see a message like factory defaults restored , so you can wotk normally after that in SAM.

Manoj

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

You can try setting the terminal emulation to vt220 or hp. at 9600 baud.
You can kill sam from another terminal, delete the lock file that it'll complain about on relaunch.
ps -ef | grep console
kill the shell if samy doesn't die well.

Use the button beside F4 (not F3) and set the terminal config to hp, and datacomm config to hp.
Then try to exit sam normally.
Normally before executing sam from text term, export TERM=hp or export TERM=vt220 so that it'll display properly.

In future type tsm at your console to allow you to have console shell switching ability.
just in case you hang it in the future.

Bill

[Jerry Friend_1]

Thanks all!
I guess I need to learn more about the console, I reset the defaults but it looked like that the session was hung so I killed the shell, the sam session and the lock, I tried to go back into sam and used "tsm" but sam still displays strangely, so i switched back to the shell and killed it all again. I don't think the display is formatted properly no columns maybe... I really have no clue, and a lot to learn