Re: [hylafax-users] faxgetty doesn't answer

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, you need to figure out why faxgetty is unable to communicate with 
the modem.  I assume that faxaddmodem ran fine for you?

Lee.


Hector S. Mendoza Ortiz wrote:

> Yes, it works ok.. but I need to remove faxgetty from inittab and restart
> machine to be able to access it, because it will not let go of the device
> even with a init q (after removal) and kill -9 <pid>
>
> Héctor
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Howard" <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Hector S. Mendoza Ortiz" <hector@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] faxgetty doesn't answer
>
>
> > Hector S. Mendoza Ortiz wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all!
> > >
> > > I have a problem, I'm experimenting with deploying a hylafax 
> > > installation but I've runned into a problem.
> > >
> > > I installed version 4.2.1-1fc3 (RPM from hylafax.org) on a fresh 
> > > installed machine with FC3 with a PCMCIA modem ActionTec Datalink 
> > > V90 LK (http://www.actiontec.com/support/modems/dlv90lk.html) modem 
> > > gets detected by linux perfectly with no problems at boot time and 
> > > creates device (ttyS3), it's already configured on inittab to launch 
> > > (mo:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS3), hylafax starts as expected:
> > >
> > > Mar  1 17:53:01 fax hylafax: faxq startup succeeded
> > > Mar  1 17:53:01 fax FaxQueuer[2392]: HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.2.1
> > > Mar  1 17:53:01 fax FaxQueuer[2392]: Copyright (c) 1990-1996 Sam 
> > > Leffler
> > > Mar  1 17:53:01 fax FaxQueuer[2392]: Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon 
> > > Graphics, Inc.
> > > Mar  1 17:53:01 fax HylaFAX[2396]: HylaFAX INET Protocol Server: 
> > > restarted.
> > > Mar  1 17:53:01 fax hylafax: hfaxd startup succeeded
> > > Mar  1 17:53:05 fax FaxGetty[2442]: OPEN /dev/ttyS3  HylaFAX (tm) 
> > > Version 4.2.1
> > > Mar  1 17:53:15 fax FaxGetty[2442]: MODEM AEIGFM560LKNF1 
> > > AEIGFM560LKNF1/p052099f
> > >
> > >
> > > faxstat reports the modem as ready
> > >
> > > [root@fax ~]# faxstat
> > > HylaFAX scheduler on fax.intranet.acorporativa.com.mx: Running
> > > Modem ttyS3 ((55)5393-8720): Running and idle
> > > [root@fax ~]#
> > >
> > > but faxgetty never answers incomming calls, i've straced faxgetty's 
> > > process and got this:
> > >
> > > select(9, [5 8], [], [8], {29, 999096}) = 0 (Timeout)
> > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 489798}, NULL) = 0
> > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 490670}, NULL) = 0
> > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 491240}, NULL) = 0
> > > select(9, [5 8], [], [8], {0, 636})     = 0 (Timeout)
> > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 494599}, NULL) = 0
> > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 495321}, NULL) = 0
> > > open("/var/lock/LCK..ttyS3", O_RDONLY)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
> > > directory)
> > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 496569}, NULL) = 0
> > > gettimeofday({1109723926, 496789}, NULL) = 0
> > >
> > > and it keeps looping and looping, if I make a call to the fax, it 
> > > will still be the same.
> > >
> > > When it's on the right mood and after several reboot's it will 
> > > answer the phone, but if you call it and no fax is sent, it will go 
> > > to this same mode again. Also if it's running normally and I restart 
> > > the hylafax service /etc/init.d/hylafax restart it will hang this 
> > > same way.
> > >
> > > I've commed to see that it's a uucp locking problem, but haven't 
> > > found a way to fix it.
> > >
> > > any ideas on what's going on? did I do something wrong?
> >
> > Can you set
> >
> >  ServerTracing: 0xFFF
> >
> > in your modem config file, restart faxgetty, and then send the 
> > FaxGetty logs in your /var/log/messages after you call the line?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lee.


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