bandy@uunet.uu.net (09/30/89)
I've heard of this bug surfacing at a few other sites, so I thought I would share a new-found solution - it's worked the one and only time I tried it - with everyone. Synopsis: Sometimes tip will get hung up <exiting> when you close the connection. This is a non-repeatable error so we can't get Sun to pay much attention to it. Sometimes it will happen to you multiple times in a day, sometimes it won't happen for weeks. When it does happen, it currently requires a reboot in order to get the modem line back. "ofiles" would show the process hanging. It would pay no attention to signals [why should it, it's exiting]. It used to be that under SunOS 3.5, that power-cycling the modem that the tip was attached to would clear the problem. When we migrated to SunOS 4.0.3, this solution no longer worked. Today, when I was fooling around, I tried the following sequence: % gcore 18785 gcore: 18785 exiting - not dumped % dbx /usr/bin/tip 18785 Reading symbolic information... Read 290 symbols Could not attach to process 18785 (dbx) quit % ps axl18785 F UID PID PPID CP PRI NI SZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND % I scratched my head for a few moments and decided that it was really gone [I could tip to it and dial up to it]. I hope that other folks can use this information. andrew scott beals capital market technology +1 415 540 6400 bandy@capmkt.com