cynthia@cod.NOSC.MIL (Cynthia G. Anderson) (08/04/89)
help! i hope there is an Apollo-Guru-In-Chief out there somewhere. for the last few months, i have been battling with an sio line problem on my apollo DN3010. Basically, it doesn't work. I've come full circle and once again believe it is a software problem not hardware. First, some background: this is a stand alone Apollo DN 3010(8M RAM, 380M disk, CT drive, 19" color monitor, ethernet card) it does NOT have maintainence my supervisor doesn't want to pay for a service call and considers the machine a white elephant, so i'm all alone out here--so to speak. i have talked briefly with apollo a few times, but even tho they try and help over the phone i can tell they'd really rather not judge the problem without physically seeing the machine...and since i don't have maintainence on it, i don't want to try their patience with too many calls. i have run CPU.DEX on it--with and without a loopback connector-- both ways (internal and external logic) came up perfectly fine. this machine has X windows running on it (X11.r2)--and i have turned it off and tried to get the sio line to work. As well as turning off TCP/IP. (this includes rebooting without them.) the machine has crashed a number of times--and i have had to load up Aegis 9.7_1 into it instead of it's original 9.7_2 (since apollo never sent me the source for Aegis when i purchased the machine.) I don't know if this is significant or not. I've tried using emt, (terminal emulation) as well as kermit. These same programs with identical configurations work on other apollo's around here. Likewise, i've checked the cables and the modems--they're ok. emt worked originally when i got the machine 2 years ago, but not now. Hopefully significant: the error i get whenever i use emt now is Unable to open stream to SIO line: /dev/sio1 --cannot open a remote sio line (stream manager/open) Funny THing I noticed: i can run kermit from within X (sort of)--apparently it isn't seen to be in local mode (because it tells me so when i try to connect! "Connect only works in Local Mode") but it does seem to make some sort of connection within itself. i don't know. Anyway, that's the problem. I'm at my physical end with this problem. I dearly hope someone out there has seen this problem before. thank you cynthia anderson [knowledgable suggestions only please--no snide comments about apollos or my machine...i get enuff of that from my supervisor.] -- cynthia anderson Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92107 cynthia@cod.nosc.mil Disclaimer: "Ronnie made me do it!"
steve@simon.UUCP (Steven E. Piette) (08/09/89)
In article <1594@cod.NOSC.MIL>, cynthia@cod.NOSC.MIL (Cynthia G. Anderson) writes: > help! > > i have run CPU.DEX on it--with and without a loopback connector-- > both ways (internal and external logic) came up perfectly fine. From to sounds of it the port is working, but .... > > I've tried using emt, (terminal emulation) as well as kermit. > These same programs with identical configurations work on > other apollo's around here. > > Hopefully significant: > the error i get whenever i use emt now is > Unable to open stream to SIO line: /dev/sio1 --cannot open a remote sio > line (stream manager/open) What we need now is an ld -a of the /sys/node_data/dev directory. It sounds like the entry for sio1 is something other than a file of type sio. Given the problems you had with software and system crashes this could be wrong. The files for the sio ports in the dev directory ARE special. They have a type of sio and contain information on which port they are for. (I never tried to find out where. Maybe it was via a canned ACL in the VTOCE that gave the port.) Anyway, let's see what the dev directory looks like since the error message looks like /dev/sio1 (really /dev -> `node_data/dev) is linked or pointing to another system and so the remote part of the message. I hope this helps. > > cynthia anderson > Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92107 -- Steven E. Piette Applied Computer Technology Inc. UUCP: {smarthost}!simon!steve 1750 Riverwood Drive INET: steve@simon.CHI.IL.US or spiette@SUN.COM Algonquin, IL 60102 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------