Re: [hylafax-users] faxgetty doesn't answer

["Hector S. Mendoza Ortiz" <hector@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all....

After 24 hours of running with out touching it, modem it's still ok, and 
presents no problems, so I'm assuming that there is no linux issue with it, 
and the issue is due to faxgetty I will put it to run again faxgetty and 
keep an eye on it for a while to see what happens


Héctor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hector S. Mendoza Ortiz" <hector@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Lee Howard" <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] faxgetty doesn't answer


> yes, faxaddmodem ran just fine.... another behaviour that I'm looking at 
> is that either after 2 or 3 miss-received faxes (nothing sent, just 
> answered) i lose the modem, or after several hours (more than 8 hours) of 
> inactivity running faxgetty I also lose the modem, I will take a look at a 
> possible inactivity shutdown of devices, but I don't have any of this 
> configured on the system. I'm letting the modem sit without faxgetty 
> running on it for 24 hours and running again minicom to see if it's a 
> power issue, I will report tomorrow on what happened on this.
>
> Héctor
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lee Howard" <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Hector S. Mendoza Ortiz" <hector@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] faxgetty doesn't answer
>
>
> > Well, you need to figure out why faxgetty is unable to communicate with 
> > the modem.  I assume that faxaddmodem ran fine for you?
> >
> > Lee.
> >
> >
> > Hector S. Mendoza Ortiz wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, it works ok.. but I need to remove faxgetty from inittab and 
> > > restart
> > > machine to be able to access it, because it will not let go of the 
> > > device
> > > even with a init q (after removal) and kill -9 <pid>
> > >
> > > Héctor
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Howard" 
> > > <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: "Hector S. Mendoza Ortiz" <hector@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: <hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:08 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] faxgetty doesn't answer
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hector S. Mendoza Ortiz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello all!
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a problem, I'm experimenting with deploying a hylafax 
> > > > > installation but I've runned into a problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > I installed version 4.2.1-1fc3 (RPM from hylafax.org) on a fresh 
> > > > > installed machine with FC3 with a PCMCIA modem ActionTec Datalink V90 
> > > > > LK (http://www.actiontec.com/support/modems/dlv90lk.php) modem gets 
> > > > > detected by linux perfectly with no problems at boot time and creates 
> > > > > device (ttyS3), it's already configured on inittab to launch 
> > > > > (mo:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS3), hylafax starts as 
> > > > > expected:
> > > > >
> > > > > Mar  1 17:53:01 fax hylafax: faxq startup succeeded
> > > > > Mar  1 17:53:01 fax FaxQueuer[2392]: HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.2.1
> > > > > Mar  1 17:53:01 fax FaxQueuer[2392]: Copyright (c) 1990-1996 Sam 
> > > > > Leffler
> > > > > Mar  1 17:53:01 fax FaxQueuer[2392]: Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon 
> > > > > Graphics, Inc.
> > > > > Mar  1 17:53:01 fax HylaFAX[2396]: HylaFAX INET Protocol Server: 
> > > > > restarted.
> > > > > Mar  1 17:53:01 fax hylafax: hfaxd startup succeeded
> > > > > Mar  1 17:53:05 fax FaxGetty[2442]: OPEN /dev/ttyS3  HylaFAX (tm) 
> > > > > Version 4.2.1
> > > > > Mar  1 17:53:15 fax FaxGetty[2442]: MODEM AEIGFM560LKNF1 
> > > > > AEIGFM560LKNF1/p052099f
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > faxstat reports the modem as ready
> > > > >
> > > > > [root@fax ~]# faxstat
> > > > > HylaFAX scheduler on fax.intranet.acorporativa.com.mx: Running
> > > > > Modem ttyS3 ((55)5393-8720): Running and idle
> > > > > [root@fax ~]#
> > > > >
> > > > > but faxgetty never answers incomming calls, i've straced faxgetty's 
> > > > > process and got this:
> > > > >
> > > > > select(9, [5 8], [], [8], {29, 999096}) = 0 (Timeout)
> > > > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 489798}, NULL) = 0
> > > > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 490670}, NULL) = 0
> > > > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 491240}, NULL) = 0
> > > > > select(9, [5 8], [], [8], {0, 636})     = 0 (Timeout)
> > > > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 494599}, NULL) = 0
> > > > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 495321}, NULL) = 0
> > > > > open("/var/lock/LCK..ttyS3", O_RDONLY)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
> > > > > directory)
> > > > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 496569}, NULL) = 0
> > > > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 496789}, NULL) = 0
> > > > >
> > > > > and it keeps looping and looping, if I make a call to the fax, it will 
> > > > > still be the same.
> > > > >
> > > > > When it's on the right mood and after several reboot's it will answer 
> > > > > the phone, but if you call it and no fax is sent, it will go to this 
> > > > > same mode again. Also if it's running normally and I restart the 
> > > > > hylafax service /etc/init.d/hylafax restart it will hang this same 
> > > > > way.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've commed to see that it's a uucp locking problem, but haven't found 
> > > > > a way to fix it.
> > > > >
> > > > > any ideas on what's going on? did I do something wrong?
> > > >
> > > > Can you set
> > > >
> > > >  ServerTracing: 0xFFF
> > > >
> > > > in your modem config file, restart faxgetty, and then send the FaxGetty 
> > > > logs in your /var/log/messages after you call the line?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Lee.
>
>
>
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