Re: flexfax: No answer from remote

[George Zeigler <genz1968@mtu-net.ru>]

Hello Holger,

On Sat, 08 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> Seems that you have a modem-locking problem.
	Thanks Holger, but that's not it.  I've always had that message whether
successful or not.  I am pretty sure that FaxGetty simply wants to lock other
processes out while it is using the modem, and since I set my modem to
/dev/ttyS1, it can't.  If I had set it to /dev/modem, then it could.  I believe
that's correct.
 	Just recently was able to once more shoot out a fax successfully,
and it has the lock line it it.  Could not repeat this success.  Sigh.

> > Jan  7 15:53:27 george FaxSend[1225]: --> [2:OK]
> > Jan  7 15:53:27 george FaxSend[1225]: MODEM input buffering disabled
> > Jan  7 15:53:28 george FaxGetty[185]: ANSWER: Can not lock modem device
>                           
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Jan  7 15:53:28 george FaxSend[1225]: SEND FAX: JOB 41 DEST 745-5156 COMMID 00000069
> > Jan  7 15:53:55 george FaxSend[1225]: SEND FAILED: No answer from remote
> 
> Are there any other processes running that may take over modem control
> (for example "diald", "wvdial", "mgetty")? 

	I just uninstalled mgetty.  Then I uninstalled HylaFax and reinstalled
it.  Same thing happening.  And my processes seem harmless.  I think I have a
handshake problem.  Here are my processes (keep in mind ppp is running since
I'm connected at the moment):

 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
  181   1 SW   0:00 (login)
  182   2 SW   0:00 (mingetty)
  183   3 SW   0:00 (mingetty)
  184   4 SW   0:00 (mingetty)
  185   5 SW   0:00 (mingetty)
  186   6 SW   0:00 (mingetty)
  191   1 SW   0:00 (bash)
  198   1 SW   0:00 (startx)
  199   1 S    0:00 tee /root/.X.err
  208   1 SW   0:00 (xinit)
  211   1 S    0:02 kwm
 1195   1 S    0:01 kfm -d
 1201   1 S    0:00 kbgndwm
 1204   1 S    0:00 krootwm
 1207   1 S    0:02 kpanel
 1211   1 S    0:02 webmaker -restore webmakerrc.1
 1214   1 S    0:00 knotes -knotes_restore
 1233   1 S    0:02 kikbd
 1242   1 S    0:00 /root/Desktop/Autostart/xfishtank
 1243   1 S    0:01 /usr/X11/bin/xman
 1244   1 S    0:00 /usr/opt/kde/bin/kppp
 1253   1 S    0:11 kmail -caption Mail client -icon kmail.xpm
 1254  S1 S    0:00 pppd 115200 -detach crtscts defaultroute -chap user gz1968
 1261   1 S    0:12 konsole -icon konsole.xpm -miniicon konsole.xpmi
-caption Konsole  1262  ?  S    0:00 /bin/bash
 1312  ?  R    0:00 ps     
                            
>Think over what you changed
> since the system was running correctly.
	I'm beginning to suspect that I may not have been as well setup as I
thought.  I changed nothing.

> Hope this helps.
	Thanks for looking.

George

> Holger
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