Re: flexfax: RedHat 6.1 and Hylafax Woes [INFO!]

[root@raider.jobsoft.com (Mark J. Bailey [Admin])]

Hello All,

Well, the problem *is* with the RedHat 6.1 Update RPMS for libtiff!  I went
as far as to rebuild my Hylafax RPM against libtiff-3.5.4 and no good.  I
then reinstalled libtiff-3.4 RPMs from the RedHat 6.1 CD and everything is
good to go again.  I suppose I could have done a more detailed trace with
libtiff-3.5.4 installed.  I recall it to be something with "bad" pixels.
The fax tiff file never grew beyond 8 bytes (which is the "init" state I
believe).  Receive stops very shortly after the fax establishes handshaking.
I made *NO* changes to Hylafax configs - just the different libtiffs.

So, while I have no definitive cause, the effect is definite enough - avoid
the libtiff-3.5.4-1 update from RedHat (dated 12/30/99)!  

I will look at the problem some more later when I have some time to kill.

Oh yeah, I was able to remove the 'PageChop: None' option from the config
file when I went back to libtiff-3.4!  Faxes again went out and faxq did NOT
hang with the option removed but back under libtiff-3.4.

Go figure!

Mark

Forwarded message:
> From root Wed Jan 12 09:07:12 2000
> Subject: Re: flexfax: RedHat 6.1 and Hylafax Woes (fwd)
> To: ametzger@sun1.varcom.com
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:07:12 -0600 (CST)
> Cc: linuxgroup-l
> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1]
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> 
> the problem is *CLEARLY*
> 
> libtiff-3.5.4-1
> libtiff-3.5.4-devel-1
> 
> older libtiff-3.4's from the redhat 6.1 cd, rebooted, and the faxing worked.
> 
> put the above back in, quit working again.  
> 
> My next step is to rebuild the hylafax RPM under redhat 6.1 with the
> libtiff-3.5.4.
> 
> Mark
> 
> i replaced the older
> Forwarded message:
> > From root Wed Jan 12 08:30:49 2000
> > Subject: Re: flexfax: RedHat 6.1 and Hylafax Woes
> > To: ametzger@sun1.varcom.com (Aaron Metzger)
> > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:30:49 -0600 (CST)
> > In-Reply-To: <387C7FED.5B79C030@varcom.com> from "Aaron Metzger" at Jan 12, 2000 08:21:49 AM
> > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1]
> > Content-Length: 1877      
> > 
> > working through SLOWLY
> > 
> > so far, it appears to be one of these:
> > 
> > bind-8.2.2_P3-1.i386.rpm
> > bind-devel-8.2.2_P3-1.i386.rpm
> > bind-utils-8.2.2_P3-1.i386.rpm
> > ee-0.3.11-1.i386.rpm
> > glib-1.2.6-2.i386.rpm
> > glib-devel-1.2.6-2.i386.rpm
> > libglade-0.7-1.i386.rpm
> > libtiff-3.5.4-1.i386.rpm
> > libtiff-devel-3.5.4-1.i386.rpm
> > magicdev-0.2.6-1.i386.rpm
> > pam-0.68-8.i386.rpm
> > ppp-2.3.10-3.i386.rpm
> > rp3-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
> > sharutils-4.2.1-1.6.1.i386.rpm
> > sysklogd-1.3.31-14.i386.rpm
> > usermode-1.16-1.i386.rpm                                                        
> > 
> > and it appeared to surface AFTER I had loaded the above, then rebooted!
> > 
> > the modem suddenly started answering differently as well.  It would connect,
> > negotiate the "header" then freeze.  I CHANGED NOTHING in hylafax configs!
> > BOTH modems (a MultiTech MT5600ZDX and a Motorola ModemSurfer 28.8) began
> > the EXACT same behavior!  So, I suspect that it is something in hylafax that
> > does not function anymore.  I am going to begin to back out the above with
> > the original redhat 6.1 RPMS and see what happens.  Unfortunately, I will 
> > have to reboot between steps.  
> > 
> > FYI
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > > 
> > > "Mark J. Bailey [Admin]" wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi All,
> > > > 
> > > > I have seen a lot of talk about recent troubles with Hylafax and RedHat.  Well,
> > > > we have begun having a lot of the same problems BUT ONLY after applying
> > > > the RedHat 6.1 *updates* (which included a new glib (not glibc) and a new ...
> > > >
> > > > [snip]
> > > > 
> > > > Mark
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Mark:
> > > 
> > >   I've been getting burned too and have been trying to figure out which
> > > RedHat update killed Hylafax (and me).
> > > 
> > >   If anyone responds to you with anything useful, please pass it on to
> > > me.
> > >   I subscribe to the Hylafax list so there is no need to duplicate
> > > anything posted there.
> > > 
> > >   Thanks for any help you can give.
> > >   I'll be sure to send you an e-mail if I discover anything on this end.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Aaron
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>