Re: [hylafax-users] Can't install HylaFAX under Fedora 7.

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik P. Olsen wrote:

> I am building my new system based upon Fedora 7 and I thought adding 
> HylaFAX to it would be piece of cake. Sigh, it aint :-(
>
> I have had HylaFAX running on Fedora Core 5 for a year and a half 
> without any problems. On Fedora 7 the HylaFAX daemon starts fine but 
> the modem isn't initialised. In dmesg I see:
>
> Xen virtual console successfully installed as ttyS0
>
> and messages:
>
> FaxGetty[3393]: /dev/ttyS0: Can not initialize modem.
> FaxGetty[3393]: Unable to setup modem on /dev/ttyS0; giving up after 2 
> attempts
> FaxGetty[3393]: CLOSE /dev/ttyS0
> FaxQueuer[2638]: MODEM /dev/ttyS0 appears to be wedged
> FaxQueuer[2638]: MODEM WEDGED: bin/wedged "ttyS0" "/dev/ttyS0"
>
> I assume this Xen is stealing the modem before HylaFAX can get to it. 
> What is this Xen doing and how can I get rid of it? I did yum remove 
> xen* but it still snatches the modem. Has anybody seen this and have a 
> cure for it. I would be greatfull to hear about it.


You're probably booting with kernel-xen.  See:

 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Fedora7VirtQuickStart

You probably just need to edit /etc/grub.conf and set the default to the 
non-xen kernel.

Thanks,

Lee.


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