Re: [hylafax-users] modem "wedged" yet working fine...

[Daniel Bourque <dbourque@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ok. ignore my post

the error is coming from another fax server.... darn sendmail masquerading !

Daniel Bourque
Sr. Systems Engineer
WeatherData Service Inc
An Accuweather Company

Office (316) 266-8013
Office (316) 265-9127 ext. 3013
Mobile (316) 640-1024



Daniel Bourque wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I searched the list and read the man pages, but I'm not finding any 
> solutions...
>
>    I keep getting "modem on /dev/ttyR0 appears wedged" emails. In the 
> past , I would have rebooted the modem, killed the faxgetty process 
> and let it respawn, and it would have been fine. But now no matter 
> what I do, I cannot stop hylafax from sending me that warning every 5 
> minutes...
>
> the strange part is this:
>
> 1) The modem works fine, it's sending lots of faxes with no errors in 
> the logs.
> 2) I'm not seeing any errors from faxgetty in the syslogs
> 3) when not in use, faxstat reports: Modem ttyR0 (xxx-xxx-xxxx): 
> Running and idle  , meaning that initialization succeeded and 
> therefore modem should not be wedged !
>
> Why does hylafax thinks it's wedged ?!?!?
>
> so far I tried:
>
> 1) power cycling the modem
> 2) killing the faxgetty process
> 3) restarting hylafax
> 4) using faxstate to disbale the modem, and reenable it
> 5) reconfiguring the modem with faxaddmodem
> 6) set MaxSetupAttempts to 10
>
>
> Also, for some reason I changed WEDGED_EMAIL_INTERVAL in 
> /var/spool/hylafax/etc/FaxDispatch to 60, restart hylafax, and I still 
> get emails every 5 minutes... I also notice that 
> /var/spool/hylafax/tmp is empty. I went though the "wedged" script, it 
> should leave a file called ttyR0_last_wedged_email behind, but it 
> doesn't. This probably explains why I still get the emails every 5 
> minutes.
>
>
> I'm out of ideas here.
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Red Hat Linux release 9
> hylafax-4.3.0-2rh9
> faxgetty on ttyR0 reports: MODEM HAYES V.90 SERIAL S052099G -U H207 
> Hayes V.90 Serial s052099g -U H207


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