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- From: rroman@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Randall Roman)
- Subject: Re: shutdown/update frustration on 700s
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.221735.8860@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Keywords: screen seems to get screwed...
- Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns)
- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
- References: <lee.714599840@ceg.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 22:17:35 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <lee.714599840@ceg.uiuc.edu> lee@ceg.uiuc.edu (Chris Lee) writes:
- >This is on a hp9000/720, HPUX8.07 (delivered last week --
- >8/20).
- >
- >1. I don't know why the shutdown program sometimes does not seem
- > to give me a "visible" window to work with. When I type
- > % /etc/shutdown
- > to get into single user mode to update the system, MOST of the
- > time, after sending out the messages, I will get the following
- > sequence: The screen blinks, and we seen the VUE login window,
- > there is a blip, and we see some of the left-over text
- > on the console screen, and then it goes BLANK! I can type stuff
- > and it will do something (I'm sure of this since I can get
- > disk activity by typing some odds and ends). The only way
- > to get a visible screen is to type (blindly)
- > % /etc/shutdown -r -y 0
- > This will reboot the machine, and in the process show me all
- > the garbage I typed blindly.
- >
- > Unfortunately, this isn't ALWAYS reproducible. SOMETIMES, it
- > works, and gives me a visible screen to type in.
-
- try pressing the 'reset' key on the keyboard. Its on the
- upper left hand side. I've had this problem, this solution works
- for me. BTW, it may not be the 'reset' key, but I'm away
- from the machine now, so I can't check.
-
- >One frustrated root user.
- >--
- >Chris Lee
- >University of Illinois Urbana
- >lee@ceg.uiuc.edu
- >(217)244-2903
-
- --
- Randy Roman
- r-roman@nwu.edu
-