[comp.sys.att] 3b1 610 terminal interrupts

john@chinet.UUCP (John Mundt) (07/14/88)

I have been plagued with a problem on two of 6 3b1's I own of having a
user logged off while in the middle of a process for no reason.  A hangup
signal is generated somewhere, somehow, and the process dies and the user
gets a logon message.  

This happens if the only process running is /bin/sh and the user is
not inputting anything.  Another process which traps signals before it
dies identifies the signal is SIGHUP.  It only happens on two computers,
and then only for certain users.  Changing tty lines doesn't help the
problem, but logging in on a different terminal does.

Aha!  Must be the terminal, right?  Had two AT&T techs out with monitoring
equipment to watch the line between terminal and 3b1 and they detected
nothing strange on the line.  

Has anyone else experienced the same problems and found solutions?  
(It is 3.5.1.4 flavor SysV with the ROM chip corrections for the Zilog
chip on the expansion board).

John Mundt
Teachers' Aide, Inc.
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gmark@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Stewart) (07/14/88)

In article <5991@chinet.UUCP>, john@chinet.UUCP (John Mundt) writes:
> I have been plagued with a problem on two of 6 3b1's I own of having a
....
> (It is 3.5.1.4 flavor SysV with the ROM chip corrections for the Zilog
> chip on the expansion board).
....

What is 3.5.1.4, is it free/expensive, what does it buy you, does it
have problems, and what is the ROM chip correction, as well as the
Zilog chip (pant-pant-pant), HUH?  Pardon my ignorance.


				- Mark

				G. Mark Stewart
				ATT_BTL, Naperville, Ill. ix1g266
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