Re: AIX 4.3 screen froze on RS/6000 Please Advise

From: Stefaan A Eeckels (tengo_at_DELETEMEecc.lu)
Date: 09/29/04


Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:10:42 +0200

On 29 Sep 2004 09:07:38 -0700
dchou1108@hotmail.com (Dave) wrote:

> we currently have AIX 4.3 installed on an IBM RS/6000 machine. The
> issue is that the AIX is froozen. I cannot open any terminals or
> programs. The system is up and running fine and I can ftp into teh
> server but on the actual server I cannot open up anything. Is there
> any ways to unfreeze the server without restarting. I do not want to
> take down the server. Please advise.

If the problem is with X, simply ssh/telnet into the machine,
become root, and kill the X server (something like
/usr/lpp/X11/bin/X).

That should do the trick.

-- 
Stefaan
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