Bugs is Phone Driver (was Re: 3.51a ?)

Lenny Tropiano lenny at icus.UUCP
Tue May 17 10:25:15 AEST 1988


In article <9273 at g.ms.uky.edu> david at ms.uky.edu (David Herron) writes:
|>>In article <83 at ihtlt.UUCP> tlt at ihtlt.UUCP (T. L. Todd) writes:
|>>
|>>I was having lots of problems with the maching hanging at the
|>>end of a uucp session; the fixed uucico seems to clear that up.
|>
|>My experience with this was that I installed all the fixes.  Then
|>the machine started locking up -- the |WORKING| icon would stay on
|>and I'd get little to no response from any keys -- and the lockup
|>didn't really seem to be related to anything in particular. 

I believe the locking up syndrome is do to the ph driver.  That piece of
code seems to be full of hacks.  I wish someone at AT&T would either make
the source code available (cheap enough for us) so we as developers, 
consultants, hobbiests, etc.. can fix the kludgy code once and for all.

I have been running 3.51a for about 3 months now and it seemed to be
very stable, at least until tonight.  The usual symptoms UUCP calling
(or terminating), screen hangs up, and WORKING icon blinks on forever and
ever.  The only recourse is to RESET.

|>Are you implying that there's a newer uucico than the one on
|>the fixdisk?

I doubt it.  The latest fixdisk is the 3.51a kernel one. 


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