[tech] Mussel still hardlocks on console use

[David Adam]

As anyone just booted off Mussel will have noticed, I managed to hard lock
the entire system by using the system console (virtual terminal) for a
couple of minutes.

While you'd think I would have remembered
http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/2006-September/003103.html
or recalled that there was a sign up for several months reminding people
not to log in on Mussel's console, I apparently need this in my shell
profile:

if [ "`hostname`" == "mussel" -a "x`echo $STY | grep vc`" != "x"  ]; then
  echo "Logged in on Mussel's console."
  echo "System may hang with extended use."
fi

Apologies to anyone I disrupted.

David Adam
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au