Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Mar 1996 15:04:19 -0500 | From | Michael Meissner <> | Subject | Linux 1.3.69/1.3.70 and diald |
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I'm running 1.3.70 of Linux (and previously ran 1.3.69, and before that 1.3.57), and redhat 2.1 commands. On my home machine, I run diald 0.11 to connect to the internet, and have diald looking at a fifo (/etc/diald.fifo) for commands. Twice now (once with 1.3.70 and once with 1.3.69), Linux did not come down cleanly. The scenario in both case went as follows:
1) I did: echo "unforce\ndown" > /etc/diald.fifo to tell diald to hang up the phone line;
2) I did Control-Alt-Delete to reboot the system;
3) During the phase where it sends all processes the first signal, it hung, and did not continue;
4) I eventually power cycled the machine;
5) When it ran fsck, it dropped me into a subshell and had me run fsck by hand. I did so, and it complained that the fifo had 1 frag, when it expected 0. After answering yes to clear it, everything was fine and dandy.
Now, I've rebooted other times, and as long as I don't do the echo into the fifo, it comes down cleanly.
-- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Support (East Coast) Suite 105, 48 Grove Street, Somerville, MA 02144, USA meissner@cygnus.com, 617-629-3016 (office), 617-629-3010 (fax)
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