Keyboard & Console screen is locked

[Fernando G LLamas]

I have the keyboard locked and would beep if any key is pressed. How do you unlocked the keyboard without powering down?

[Helen French]

1) First thing to check is the terminal settings. Is it right?

2) Check if any process or command which you gave on the console is hanging or still running? Check with 'ps -ef" command

3) If possible, kill the process/command running on the console.

What type of terminal are you using? Which server?

[Fernando G LLamas]

I found the answer using google search engine. all I need to do is power down the console monitor screen. Thx for the rapid response.

[Rob_132]

I'm unclear what you mean by the keyboard is "locked" - locked how?? What type of machine? What OS?

Since it is "locked" and all keys beep at you, you will have to telnet in from another machine - hopefully this is on a network. If not, ps -ef will not do any good since if you cannot use the local keyboard - your only option then is to reboot.

Post back with clarification, or accept the guesses above.

Rob

[Bill Hassell]

HP terminals (ie, the 700/9x series and others) are smart terminals and have extensive block-mode editing and protocol features. One of the features is to prevent the keyboard from transmitting until the computer sends the unlock escape sequence. Another method is to enable a handshake protocol which is common on the HP 3000 but never used on the HP 9000.

Somone probably listed a binary file onto the terminal and buried in the thousands of characters was a combination that told the terminal to lock the keyboard. To unlock the keyboard, press the SHIFT key and while holding it down, press the RESET key. That will unlock the terminal.