Re: [hylafax-users] cannot send any faxes (could not create client)

[Stephen Arnold <arnold.steve@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:23, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> How did you upgrade?
> 
> It looks like your hylafax spool (/var/spool/hylafax) no longer has the
> client directory (or the permisions in it are wrong).
> 
> ls -ld /var/spool/hylafax/client
> drwxr-xr-x    2 uucp     uucp         4096 Nov 20 13:34 /var/spool/hylafax/client
> 

I'm the Gentoo ebuild guy for hylafax, and it should be a straight
rebuild the 4.1.8 package and unmerge the old one.  Since the 4.1.7
ebuild had no problems, I didn't spend a bunch of time testing the 4.1.8
(since it was just a security update).  Kindof an assumption on my part,
but the 4.1.8 ebuild is still marked ~x86 (meaning not part of the
stable ebuild list).

Davison, if you can file a Gentoo bug report, I'll take a look and see
if it's a problem with the ebuild.  Go here:

http://bugs.gentoo.org

Thanks, Steve


> * Davison Long <davlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [031120 17:21]:
> > I'm running the latest version of Gentoo Linux and HylaFAX 4.1.8
> > 
> > I just upgraded to the 4.1.8 release and now I'm have a MAJOR problem.  
> > I cannot send any faxes or even run the faxstat utility.  Everything 
> > that follows is occuring on localhost (no remote clients).  The 
> > following is what the faxstat utility returns:
> > 
> > #faxstat -vs
> > Trying localhost (127.0.0.1) at port 4559...
> > Connected to localhost.
> > 420 luther.vagop.com server cannot initialize: Could not create 
> > client/2044: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Digging deeper, I check the system logs and find the following lines:
> > 
> > Nov 21 02:46:11 luther FaxQueuer[2033]: HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.1.8
> > Nov 21 02:46:11 luther FaxQueuer[2033]: Copyright (c) 1990-1996 Sam 
> > Leffler
> > Nov 21 02:46:11 luther FaxQueuer[2033]: Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon 
> > Graphics, Inc.
> > Nov 21 02:46:11 luther FaxGetty[1815]: HELLO
> > Nov 21 02:46:11 luther FaxQueuer[2033]: Could not scan client directory 
> > for clients
> > Nov 21 02:46:11 luther HylaFAX[2037]: HylaFAX INET Protocol Server: 
> > restarted.
> > Nov 21 02:46:20 luther HylaFAX[2040]: connection refused (Could not 
> > create client/2040: No such file or directory) from localhost 
> > [127.0.0.1]
> > 
> > Notice the "could not scan client directory for clients", and the last 
> > line caused by the faxstat attempt.
> > 
> > My hosts.hfaxd has not changed, and it simply contains:
> > localhost
> > 127.0.0.1
> > 
> > What could be the problem here??  I can't find anything in the archives 
> > or on google about this specific problem, and nothing similar seems to 
> > address my problem.  Could this be a bug in the 4.1.8 release?  Any 
> > help would be GREATLY appreciated.  Thanks,
> > 
> > Davison Long
> > 



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