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- How to reboot a sun ultra running solaris 2.5.1 from the
- console, when being logged in as a normal user, without touching
- STOP-A. (tested on ultra1 140m)
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- Try executing
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- perl -e 'print "\e[1J"'
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- on the console without starting X11. This will send your ultra
- to kingdom come and only a power-on reset can get it back ...
-
- Now why do I care?
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- Because some of our users like to telnet to a VAX system from the sun
- console without starting up X11. On the VAX they use their favorite editor,
- which uses above escape sequence to clear the screen. Unfortunately the
- screen clearing is a bit to effective on a ultra.
-
- The Bug is in the Sun bug-database under ID 4039619 (that is the number
- quoted by our sun service rep) The workaround according to sun is:
- "Don't log into the VAX without starting X." Obvious yes ... thank you ...
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- bad trap and panic induced on :-
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- SunOS xxx 5.5.1 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
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- It was confirmed to be a problem by our sun service
- contact. They said they could reproduce it ... You must make sure
- that you are trying this on a Sun Graphics Board Connected Monitor,
- which is NOT running X11 (OpenWindows). This Problem does not
- manifest itself on tty connected Terminals. Or when running X11.
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