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From: bep@quintro.uucp (Bryan Province)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: DPCI and pty probs.
Message-ID: <1990Jun1.145336.424@quintro.uucp>
Date: 1 Jun 90 14:53:36 GMT
Reply-To: bep@quintro.UUCP (Bryan Province)
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I haven't seen anything about this for a while so I thought it was time to
start it up again.

We have DPCI V5.0 running over ethernet on a DN3000 at SR10.2.  Dterm locks
up several times a day.  I can fix it temporarily by several stages of fixes:

	1.  Delete the offending ttyp? and ptyp? from /dev.  The PC attached
	    to that port may or may not need to be rebooted.

	2.  Get everyone off of the pty ports and run /etc/mkdev /dev pty.

	3.  Remake the ptys and reboot the node.

After step one you can usually use Dterm again but the 'tty' value gets set
to /dev/tty which messes up our login scripts.  When Dterm gets screwed up
usually it also affects rlogin.  I have also seen occasions when two PCs end
up using the same tty port.  We DO have the pty patch #143 loaded and haven't
seen much of a difference.  WHEN WILL APOLLO PPPPPLEASE GET THIS PTY PROBLEM
FIXED?!?!?!?  This is a great source of grief for me so any response is
helpful.
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Bryan Province     Glenayre Corp.           quintro!bep@lll-winken.llnl.gov
                   Quincy,  IL              tiamat!quintro!bep@uunet
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