Re: [hylafax-users] modem (or faxgetty?) hangs "receiving from ..."

[Patrick Fromberg <patrick.fromberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Howard wrote:
> On 2003.12.05 12:57 Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
>
> > So, it definately seems like it's stuck in a system call.  It seems
> > it's
> > not actually "doing" anything (CPU wise), correct?)  The output of
> > strace should be able to tell us what system call it's doing.
>
>
>  From my earlier analysis, I believe that faxgetty is looping in 
> ModemServer::getModemLine() for the modem to respond with +FPS.  The 
> modem never does respond with +FPS, however (so a Class 2 firmware bug 
> is triggering a HylaFAX problem here).  ModemPageDoneTimeout is supposed 
> to control how long faxgetty waits in getModemLine(), but 
> ModemPageDoneTimeout doesn't seem to be working - so we loop forever 
> waiting for +FPS.

I saw this on a class 1 modem too, but I am not absoultely sure, if it 
was exactly the same.



> ModemPageDoneTimeout is, by default, exceptionally large, 180000.  I 
> don't know if that has some factor on this (perhaps because it exceeds a 
> 16-bit integer size), so that's why I've asked them to test with 
> ModemPageDoneTimeout set to 60000.
>
> Lee.

I did this, I patched libfaxserver.so.4.1.7 with the debug patch and
I will do a stack trace on faxgetty process when problem arises.

But what does the ModemPageDoneTimeout solve? The modem will go wrong 
for one hour and then work again? Thats ok, if faxes are rejected in the 
mean time, or better, if the modem does not even answer meanwhile.

BTHW I have not set ModemPageStartTimeout. Shall I do that too?

Patrick

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