Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm
From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Unix-pc lockup problems - A follow-up
Message-ID: <915@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 22:04:09 GMT
References: <71@cjsa.UUCP> <904@neoucom.UUCP> <517@gethen.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Lines: 19
Keywords: unix-pc 3B1 7300
Summary: yafu (yet another follow-up)


<<internal modem and panics, etc.>>

I think the problem has been narrowed down to uucico choking on
garbage characters it gets as a result of cutting off the con-
nection after an incoming uucp transfer.  Apparently this causes
hardware interrupts to be generated at a furious rate.  It also
prevents getty from respawing for that port.

I apologize for any gainsaying I've done upon the Hotline.  They
have cooked up a new improved uucico to try.  The nice person at
the hotline is going to download me a copy to test out.

I'll advise the Net on success or lack there of with the new
patched-up uucico.

--Bill

Thanks to all who have helped find the gremlin.