process hang

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Tue, 28 Apr 1998 09:56:10 +0200

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Hi,

Mike wrote:
> I'm running mgetty with Linux 2.0.33 and a 16 port RocketPort card.
> After a while of working fine -- the tail-end modems stop answering.
> I do a ps auxwl and the mgettys for those ports have a D status whith
> a description of add_timer.  These processes can't be killed.  I have
> to reboot to get things working again.  What do I need to do?

Sounds like a driver problem (a userland program can't do anything to get
into that state on purpose), please check whether there's an updated
driver available.

gert

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