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At Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:26:26 +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
Subject: Re: why won't my dual PIV Xeon boxes halt when they are told to?
>=20
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:09:12PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > Perhaps the spewing of final "has halted" message is too fast
> > for my terminal server, which then promptly sends a ^S to try to slow
> > things down a bit, which the system then mis-interprets as "any key" and
> > thus it reboots.
>=20
> Hah, maybe.  Perhaps add an echo back of the "any key" pressed hex
> value, to prove it?

Hey!  Sometimes the obvious is so hard to see!  Thanks very much for the
suggestion!

> > Maybe I'll try to get hardware flow control to work again.....
>=20
> Worth doing regardless.

indeed, though it's not exactly trivial in this case given that it's a
DECserver 900TM with it's rather wonky non-standard serial ports and its
multitude of non-standard ways of using the control signal lines.

--=20
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