From: utzoo!decvax!wivax!ss
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: ?
Article-I.D.: wivax.6733
Posted: Mon Feb 14 12:58:23 1983
Received: Wed Feb 16 05:58:45 1983

Today my terminal got hung.  I had been running vi under ucb/mail -
when I went to exit from vi I got the # lines in filex message, but the
cursor stayed at the end of this message, and no prompt appeared.  I
did the usual things, control-c'd control-z'd, reset the terminal,
etc.  I rushed over to another terminal and looked at my processes -
the current one was in "I" state.  I sent some signals to that
process, and figured that something would happen - I was wrong.  I
sent some signals to all the other processes attached to that terminal
and finally got a getty running - but still nothing when I typed
anything at the keyboard.  I went to the other terminal again and
tried some more things - sent some more signals.  Finally I got to the
state where the only thing attached to that terminal was an 
status.  This process I was unable to kill, even with a 9 (KILL)
signal, one which is suppossed to be non-catchable(?).

Anyway, this is all kind of vague, but does anyone recognize this
situation?  (Oh - I had to reboot the system to get my terminal back!)
Thanks,

Sid Shapiro -- decvax!wivax!ss -- Wang Institute -- (617)649-9731
	       ss.Wang-Inst@UDel-Relay