Re: [hylafax-users] modem hangs, nonstop RING in logs

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004.09.16 19:34 Jasen Bruggeman wrote:
> I am running Hylafax 4.1.8-1 on Redhat 8, and using an external 
> Courier V.Everything serial modem. This server can receive over a 
> hundred faxes without incident, however the problem is the modem will 
> hang for no apparent reason while answering a call, all that shows up 
> in the logs is continuous RING, RING, RING.... nonstop until the 
> server is restarted. This post 
> http://www.hylafax.org/archive/1998-10/msg00058.html
> from years ago seems to be the same exact problem but was never 
> answered. Here is a snippet from my logs:
>
> Sep 16 17:34:20.23: [  778]: HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.1.8
> Sep 16 17:34:20.23: [  778]: <-- [4:ATA\r]
> Sep 16 17:35:10.81: [  778]: --> [4:RING]
> Sep 16 17:35:16.11: [  778]: --> [4:RING]
> Sep 16 17:35:21.42: [  778]: --> [4:RING]
> Sep 16 17:35:26.78: [  778]: --> [4:RING]
> Sep 16 17:35:32.08: [  778]: --> [4:RING]
> Sep 16 17:35:37.44: [  778]: --> [4:RING]
> Sep 16 17:35:42.74: [  778]: --> [4:RING]
> Sep 16 17:35:48.05: [  778]: --> [4:RING]
> Sep 16 17:35:53.41: [  778]: --> [4:RING]
> ......
> Sep 16 18:11:27.78: [  778]: --> [4:RING]
> Sep 16 18:11:33.14: [  778]: --> [4:RING]
> Sep 16 18:11:38.44: [  778]: --> [4:RING]
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated

Try the attached patch.  If you need an SRPM, let me know.

The patch should keep the faxgetty process from hanging indefinitely.  
However, the modem shouldn't respond with RING to ATA in the first 
place.

Lee.

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