Terminal locking up

[Robb Cutler]

I ran into the following problem yesterday:

I'm running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 on a 386 with 3 Arnet Smartport boards.
One tty (on the Arnet board) locked up and I needed to shutdown and
reboot to get it to work again.

I tried unplugging and replugging in the port, shutting off and repowering
the terminal (a DEC VT100) connected to port, sending X-ON characters from
the terminal, and finally tried to kill the getty process on the device.

Nothing worked and the kill -9 would not start a new getty process.

The port locked up after automatically logging off the user due to too
much idle time.

If anyone has any suggestions or has run across a similar situation, I'd
appreciate it -- I'd hate to have to shutdown each time it happens.

Thanks in advance,
Robb
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Robb Cutler                                    robbc at lsmi.com
Quality Assurance Manager                      ...!dartvax!lsmi!robbc
Life Sciences Manufacturing, Inc.
West Lebanon, NH  03784                        (603) 298-8010