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Re: solaris ^[[1J reboot
From: oetiker () EE ETHZ CH (Tobias Oetiker)
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 17:19:52 +0200
Well 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. Is there anybody who can reproduce the problem? Or am I just incredibly stupid ? cheers tobi On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Jeff DeFord wrote:
It just clears the screen on mine too. No failure here... Jeff DeFord On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Tobias Oetiker wrote:For a few months I have tried to get Sun to fix this annoying bug, but they consider it unimportant :-( ... So I'll let you have it ... Here goes: 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) Try executing perl -e 'print "\e[1J"' 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? 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 ... have fun tobi
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