Linux 1.3.69/1.3.70 and diald

Michael Meissner (meissner@cygnus.com)
Sun, 3 Mar 1996 15:04:19 -0500

I'm running 1.3.70 of Linux (and previously ran 1.3.69, and before
that 1.3.57), and redhat 2.1 commands. On my home machine, I run
diald 0.11 to connect to the internet, and have diald looking at a
fifo (/etc/diald.fifo) for commands. Twice now (once with 1.3.70 and
once with 1.3.69), Linux did not come down cleanly. The scenario in
both case went as follows:

1) I did: echo "unforce\ndown" > /etc/diald.fifo to tell diald to
hang up the phone line;

2) I did Control-Alt-Delete to reboot the system;

3) During the phase where it sends all processes the first
signal, it hung, and did not continue;

4) I eventually power cycled the machine;

5) When it ran fsck, it dropped me into a subshell and had me run
fsck by hand. I did so, and it complained that the fifo had 1
frag, when it expected 0. After answering yes to clear it,
everything was fine and dandy.

Now, I've rebooted other times, and as long as I don't do the echo
into the fifo, it comes down cleanly.

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Michael Meissner, Cygnus Support (East Coast)
Suite 105, 48 Grove Street, Somerville, MA 02144, USA
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