flexfax: Problems with Hylafax...

[Patrick Balestra <Patrick.Balestra@i3s.unice.fr>]

Hello,

I'm trying to install the hylafax software on my PC linux RH6.2 box and
i need your help.

I downloaded and installed hylafax-4.1beta1-1rh6.i386.rpm
I ran faxsetup and faxaddmodem and all was OK.
When i try to send an outgoing fax, the fax is spooled but never send.

Here is a transcript of my session :

[balestra@fax balestra]$ faxstat -s
HylaFAX scheduler on fax.i3s.unice.fr: Running
Modem ttyS2 (+33 4 92942898): Running and idle
[balestra@fax balestra]$ sendfax -s a4 -n -D -d 92942781 pb.ps 
request id is 1 (group id 1) for host localhost (1 file)

[balestra@fax balestra]$ faxstat -s
HylaFAX scheduler on fax.i3s.unice.fr: Running
Modem ttyS2 (+33 4 92942898): Running and idle

JID  Pri S  Owner Number       Pages Dials     TTS Status
1    127 R balest 2781          0:0   0:12

[balestra@fax balestra]$ ps axu|grep faxq
uucp       671  0.0  1.4  3296 1884 ?        S    14:25   0:00
/usr/sbin/faxq
uucp       802 99.1  1.6  3396 2064 ?        R    14:31   5:39
/usr/sbin/faxq

The faxq process take all the CPU but do nothing (?)


Here are the reports made by syslog (with max of tracing ?):

[root@fax /root]# cat /var/log/messages
...
May 30 14:25:57 fax hylafax: HylaFAX:
May 30 14:25:58 fax hylafax:  faxq
May 30 14:25:58 fax FaxQueuer[671]: servertracing = 0x3ffff (line 7)
May 30 14:25:58 fax FaxQueuer[671]: HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.1beta1
May 30 14:25:58 fax FaxQueuer[671]: Copyright (c) 1990-1996 Sam Leffler
May 30 14:25:58 fax FaxQueuer[671]: Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon
Graphics, Inc.
May 30 14:25:58 fax hylafax:  hfaxd (without old protocol or SNPP
support)
May 30 14:25:58 fax hylafax: .
May 30 14:25:58 fax rc: Starting hylafax succeeded
May 30 14:25:58 fax HylaFAX[673]: HylaFAX INET Protocol Server:
restarted.
May 30 14:25:59 fax linuxconf: Linuxconf final setup
May 30 14:26:00 fax rc: Starting linuxconf succeeded
May 30 14:26:01 fax FaxQueuer[671]: FIFO RECV "+ttyS2:N+33 4 92942898"
May 30 14:26:01 fax FaxQueuer[671]: MODEM ttyS2: NUMBER +33 4 92942898
May 30 14:26:01 fax FaxGetty[718]: OPEN /dev/ttyS2
May 30 14:26:01 fax kernel: eth0: media is TP. 
May 30 14:26:07 fax FaxGetty[718]: MODEM ROCKWELL AC/V34/V1.309-V34_DP
May 30 14:26:08 fax FaxQueuer[671]: FIFO RECV "+ttyS2:RP3fd7e7ff:ff"
May 30 14:26:08 fax FaxQueuer[671]: MODEM ttyS2: READY, capabilities
P3fd7e7ff:ff
May 30 14:28:39 fax PAM_pwdb[722]: (login) session opened for user
balestra by (uid=0)
mai 30 14:28:47 fax PAM_pwdb[746]: (su) session opened for user root by
balestra(uid=500)
May 30 14:31:03 fax PAM_pwdb[775]: (login) session opened for user
balestra by (uid=0)
May 30 14:31:34 fax HylaFAX[801]: Filesystem has SysV-style file
creation semantics.
May 30 14:31:35 fax FaxQueuer[671]: FIFO RECV "Sclient/801:1"
May 30 14:31:35 fax FaxQueuer[671]: SUBMIT JOB 1
May 30 14:31:35 fax FaxQueuer[671]: JOB 1 (suspended dest  pri 127 tts
0:00 killtime 2:59:00): CREATE
May 30 14:31:35 fax FaxQueuer[671]: Apply CanonicalNumber rules to
"0492942781"
May 30 14:31:35 fax FaxQueuer[671]: --> match rule "^[^+]", result now
"+3342781"
May 30 14:31:35 fax FaxQueuer[671]: --> return result "+33492942781"
May 30 14:31:35 fax FaxQueuer[671]: JOB 1 (ready dest +33492942781 pri
127 tts 0:00 killtime 2:59:00): READY
May 30 14:31:35 fax FaxQueuer[671]: FIFO SEND client/801 msg "S*"
May 30 14:31:35 fax FaxQueuer[671]: JOB 1 (ready dest +33492942781 pri
127 tts 0:00 killtime 2:59:00): PROCESS
May 30 14:31:35 fax FaxQueuer[671]: JOB 1 (active dest +33492942781 pri
127 tts 0:00 killtime 2:59:00): ACTIVE
May 30 14:31:35 fax FaxQueuer[671]: JOB 1 (active dest +33492942781 pri
127 tts 0:00 killtime 2:59:00): PREPARE START
May 30 14:31:35 fax FaxQueuer[802]: JOB 1 (active dest +33492942781 pri
127 tts 0:00 killtime 2:59:00): CONVERT DOCUMENT: bin/ps2fax -o
docq/doc1.ps;01 -r 196 -w 1728 -l 297 -m 4294967295 -1 docq/doc1.ps.1
[root@fax /root]#

The conversion is effectively done. the file
/var/spool/fax/docq/doc1.ps;01
exist and is not empty, but is never sent on the modem.


I read the docs and faqs, but don't understand this behavior.


Can you help me ?

PS: The modem is OK. It works with the "mgetty+sendfax" package.
PS2: As said in the doc, i have removed the mgetty* packages before
     installing hylafax.
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