Terminal Window Hangs

[sai.prashant]

Hello All,
The system desktop terminal of HP Unix 11.0 Workstation hangs in between when the user's are working. We can telnet and check the various status and can clear /var/tmp to create some space in /var. But doing so also doen't solve the purpose untill we finally reboot the system.
Please help me out in handling these situations with the commands i have to use, What fields i need to check and what process to kill

Thanks,
Sai

[Kent Ostby]

Sai --

I'm a bit confused as to whether or not you have a SYSTEM hang or TERMINAL hang.

If you have a terminal hang (likely since you're saying that you can telnet in), you can do a ps -ef | grep console (if its using the /dev/console port) and kill the shell (or just look at what the shell's doing).

If you are using a hard wired console such as the 700/92 700/96, you can reset the console by holding down the D key and powering down the console while continuing to hold the "D" key for a count of 8.

Release the "D" key and hit return whe the message "Default configs used, press return to continue appears." . This will fix the problem if the hang is in the console HW.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby

[sai.prashant]

It's not the system that is hanging, bcoz if the system hangs then how can i telnet to it.
It will of help too if you can provide me procedure or commands and lookup even when the system hangs.

Thanks,
Sai

[Steve Steel]

Hi


That is not what was said


1)Do you have a grapgical or Ascii console on this machine.


2)If graphical then do you see errors in /var/dt/Xerrors

3)If Ascii terminal then

ps -ef|grep -i console

Probably a process locks the console


What do the users do on the console.


What do you mean by hang

can do nothing or cannot log in.


steve Steel-

[Dave Unverhau_1]

Sai,

Are you talking about the terminal window in a CDE user session hanging?

Which version of HP-UX are you running, and what kind of workstation is it?

Did this problem just crop up on a working system? Was any software recently changed (patches applied or removed)?

Best Regards,

Dave

[Chris Wilshaw]

You say that you can clear /var/tmp to create space in /var

By this, do you mean that when the problem shows up, /var is always 100% full? If so, you (or your application developers) need to look at what is using all the space in /var/tmp

You could also check the sizes of files in;
/var/adm/syslog
/var/mail
/var/adm/cron
/var/adm/crash