tty/pty problem

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Thu, 15 Feb 1996 19:22:26 -0500 (EST)


Has anyone ever noticed/fixed a problem in 1.2.13 in which a tty will
hang? By hang, I mean when I telnet or rlogin to the system, if I get a
"bad" tty, I get:
Trying 205.229.48.17...
Connected to yoda.fdt.net.
Escape character is '^]'.

Linux 1.2.13 (yoda.fdt.net) (ttyp5)

and then nothing else. On yoda, I can see a process for login running
(sleeping) on the tty in question. Short of rebooting, or firing up a
screen to try grabbing the bad tty, I've found not way around this. It
causes major problems for clients coming in from the terminal server
since when their telnet session fails they get disconnected from the
terminal server.

There seems to be no pattern to which tty goes "bad" or when. Sometimes
it goes weeks without trouble, sometimes after only days of uptime it
happens.

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