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From: csc@orchid.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Help! Printer kills console
Message-ID: <11951@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 12:33:38 EST
Article-I.D.: orchid.11951
Posted: Tue Dec  1 12:33:38 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 02:42:21 EST
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Waterloo, Computer Science Club
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Keywords: HP 9000 model 236




We have an HP 9000 Model 236 running HP/UX 2.1  Our problem is that whenever
we send a file to the printer (an hp 2671G, hooked up to the internal HP-IB)
the keyboard on the console becomes inactivated.  The only solution we have
found so far is to re-boot.  However, the system is not crashing.  The system
keeps running and it's business like usual from the terminal.  It does not
matter who or what sent the stuff to the printer.  We have tried killing the
shell of the user on the console.  This doesn't work.  We can echo to 
/dev/console.  The internal HP-IB is select code 7.  The printer is set
at device address 1.  SRQ is disabled and listen always is off.  When the
print job is sent it functions normally.  Please note the system does not 
crash, we just lose all use of the console.

Please help.  We are a computer science club and cannot really afford the
high price of bringing someone in to fix it.  We have a lot of bright 
people around that could fix the thing if they knew where to look.

	--Jim Boritz for the Computer Science Club

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