init chat failed, exiting

• Messages sorted by:[ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]

Hi,

Graham Leggett wrote:
> ttyS2 and ttyS3 work fine, but ttyS1 keeps bombing out logging the
> following message:
> 
> init chat failed, exiting...: Interrupted system call
> 
> The above message gives no clue to actual problem, which I need to
> solve reasonably quickly because this is spamming my log files.

Look into the mgetty log file for detailed information about its doings.
This one line is simply not enough to give meaningful advice (except "it
is not working").

> Any idea what the english translation of the error message is?

The language of that message *is* English.

gert

-- 
USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
                                                           //www.muc.de/~gert/
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-3545980                         gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de