Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!quonset!jwright From: jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: getty, VLT, and modem0.device Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 90 11:04:58 GMT References: <1990Nov7.050320.11615@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Lines: 20 yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall) writes: >but after certain actions (eg, >if I hang up the modem with VLT -- this is the only one I can currently >reproduce, though I think there may be others), getty will seemingly >disappear. status reports it is gone, and so does Xoper. Often, if I >attempt to restart getty after this has happened, the machine will crash, and >when it does guru, it's a 00000004.xxxx - type guru I think it is a problem with VLT, the 68030, and modem0.device. VLT will hang itself, and eventually the machine, if I try to send a break out the Supra 2400zi. Also, for hanging up VLT first tries to drop DTR, and if that doesn't work it falls back to +++ATH. I've never tried to run any sort of getty on my machine, but I have the same trouble. -- Jim Wright jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.