uucico hangs on the AT&T 6386

[Pat R. Calhoun]

In article <1055 at koko.CSUStan.EDU>, robert at CSUStan.EDU (Robert Zeff) writes:
> I have an AT&T 6386 which hangs in uucico when the call is aborted.
> The uucico process cannot be killed, even from root.  I also have had cu
> hang this way.  AT&T has not offered any useful advice.  Seems to me that
> root should be able to kill any process.  We're using a Telebit Plus.
> Anyone else having this problem or have a solution?
> (Ant tips on how to handshake with the Telebit would be appreciated, also)


If you happen to have the driver source, you will more than likely find
that the priority to sleep is less than PZERO. This means that a signal 
will not kill (or wakeup) the process. This is the reason why the process
is unkillable. By exec'ing a ps(1) - 'laef', you will find the process'
priority will be <26, this means if that process is hung, you can kill
it by executing an init 0 (probably not what you want:-).

I need more information regarding your problem. First, are you using the
standard serial port?? or are you adding a multi-port board (such as
CTC's GEMINI-10)?? I also need to know what BIOS PROM version is in
your system(the 386 obviously:-). Right now I'm making the assumption
that you are using ATT SYS V, and not XENIX, so you might want to
specify you OS!!

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