In article <20040929221042.59b6c2a8.tengo@DELETEMEecc.lu>, Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> On 29 Sep 2004 09:07:38 -0700
> dchou1108@hotmail.com (Dave) wrote:
>
>> we currently have AIX 4.3 installed on an IBM RS/6000 machine. The
>> issue is that the AIX is froozen. I cannot open any terminals or
>> programs. The system is up and running fine and I can ftp into teh
>> server but on the actual server I cannot open up anything. Is there
>> any ways to unfreeze the server without restarting. I do not want to
>> take down the server. Please advise.
>
> If the problem is with X, simply ssh/telnet into the machine,
> become root, and kill the X server (something like
> /usr/lpp/X11/bin/X).
>
> That should do the trick.

Or first you can try Control-Alt-Backspace. That's the key sequence
to kill the X server.

Mike