mgetty u. Signal 15 ?

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Hi,

Heinz Diehl wrote:
> I've just set up mgetty, and it is exiting at every boot-time
> by signal 15.
> 
> /var/log/messages says: elfie mgetty [418]: failed dev=ttyS1, pid 418
>     got signal 15, exiting

This usually means some problem with the "inittab" setup. How does your
/etc/inittab look like?

> After it's been restarted, it seems to work, the modem on ttyS1
> answers incoming calls. After hang-up, /var/log/messages shows
> the following:
> 
> May 10 18:55:25 elfie mgetty[386]: TIOCMBIS failed: I/O error
> May 10 18:55:25 elfie mgetty[386]: cannot turn off soft carrier: I/O error
> May 10 18:55:25 elfie mgetty[386]: tcgetattr failed: I/O error
> May 10 18:55:25 elfie mgetty[386]: cannot get TIO: I/O error
> May 10 18:59:48 elfie mgetty[414]: system() failed: Operation not permitted

This is documented, may happen occasionally on Linux, and should be
harmless (if the next try succeeds).

gert

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