ITEM: CF5202L

how to clear hung tty console without reboot?

ENV:
AIX 4.1.4
Unknown model
3151 console

DESC:
tty 0 console isn't letting us login.  We get a login prompt, enter
a login, get the password prompt, but after typing in a password, we
don't get logged in - the tty hangs.  If we power the 3151 off and
back on the process repeats.

ACT:
df shows the root filesystem (/) is 100% full. 
Cleared out enough space to increase the filesystem space.  This
is the probably cause of the problem.

Next, we have the clear up tty0, but some extra steps are needed since
this is the system console which can't be "removed" during normal 
system operations...

swcons /dev/null

vi /etc/inittab
   Change cons from respawn to off
telinit q

rmdev -l tty0 ; mkdev -l tty0 
Make sure that tty0 has login DISABLED! and CONSOLE has login enabled.

vi /etc/inittab
   Change cons from off to respawn
telinit q

swcons /dev/tty0

The console is now working fine.



Support Line: how to clear hung tty console without reboot? ITEM: CF5202L

Dated: September 1996 Category: N/A

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