From: James Carlson <carlsonj@workingcode.com>
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pppd hangs on SIGHUP
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:25:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B56F656.70407@workingcode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8D.DA.01403.892965B4@cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com>
Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> nothing whatsoever. The only way (of which I know) to release the terminal
> (/cev/ttyACM0) is to send a SIGKILL. After doing so, /dev/ttyACM0 is
> released, and I can use a utility such as minicom to access the modem. I
> can dial out and get a carrier. I can see the ppp authentication request
> from the ISP. What I cannot do, however, is get pppd to come back up. If I
> start pppd again, it opens the /dev/ttyACM0 device and creates the lockfile,
> but it does not attempt to run chat or evidently do anything else other than
> refresh the lockfile if it is stale. My only option at that point is to
If you attach a debugger to it, can you find out where it's stuck? (Or
at least run "pstack `pgrep pppd`"?)
The symptoms sound like a kernel bug, but it's hard to tell.
--
James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@workingcode.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-20 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-20 5:20 pppd hangs on SIGHUP Leslie Rhorer
2010-01-20 5:34 ` Bill Unruh
2010-01-20 5:43 ` James Cameron
2010-01-20 5:47 ` James Cameron
2010-01-20 5:53 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-01-20 6:10 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-01-20 12:25 ` James Carlson [this message]
2010-01-21 2:20 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-01-21 2:47 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-01-21 12:39 ` James Carlson
2010-01-21 15:19 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-01-22 1:50 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-01-22 2:13 ` James Cameron
2010-01-22 4:36 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-01-23 17:40 ` Leslie Rhorer
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