Re: Waiting for modem to come free
Lee Howard <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.telephony.fax.hylafax.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
What were the results of the commands that I suggested? Thanks, Lee. On 12/08/2015 08:58 AM, Christo Labuschagne wrote: > Good day Lee > > Thank you for the feedback, but unfortunately there was no lock file when I struck the issue. Any other idea's I can look for? > > Kind regards > Christo > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee Howard [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 08 December 2015 12:18 AM > To: Christo Labuschagne > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Waiting for modem to come free > > On 12/06/2015 09:11 PM, Christo Labuschagne wrote: >> Good day >> >> I?ve tried to find something on the internet about this, but there was >> not much about it. What causes Hylafax+ 5.5.6 to go into the state >> ?Waiting for modem to come free?? I have implemented code that hard >> reboots the device and restarts the faxgetty service when I detect it, >> but it does not always come up again. This feels like a band aid >> though. How do I go about finding the cause of the problem? I did read >> that I should use the wedging application/script, but again, a band aid. >> >> I?m using a Davicom modem on an embedded linux os. >> > "Waiting for modem to come free" means that a process (usually faxgetty but also possibly faxsend) is wanting to access the modem, but that it sees a lock-file (from some other process) and is waiting for the lock-file to disappear. > > HylaFAX does check the lock-file to see if the process is still running. > It should clear the lock-file if the process is not alive. > > So, to troubleshoot it when this happens you need to see what processes are using the modem device, what process is listed in the lock-file, and see which HylaFAX processes are running. > > So, these commands may help: > > lsof | grep /dev/ttyS3 (where /dev/ttyS3 is your modem device) cat /var/lock/lck..ttyS3 ps aux | grep fax > > Thanks, > > Lee. > > > > Important Notice: > > This e-mail and its contents are subject to the Nanoteq (Pty) Ltd e-mail legal notice available at: > http://www.nanoteq.com/AboutUs/EmailDisclaimer.aspx > > > > > > ____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________ To subscribe/unsubscribe, click http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe [email protected] < /dev/null *To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail [email protected].*