Hi Dave, I'll try to restart BRLTTY with a debug log. One hint is that the freezes always occur when I am doing mail with fetchmail and mutt. The last one happened while I was trying to change the subject in a forwarded message.
John On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 02:16:42PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by John J. Boyer on 2019/12/03 at 11:07 -0600] > > >My Debian Buster machine with its brltty package and a pack mate display has > >been freezing from time to time. When it did that today i logged in as root > >from another machine and typed "service brltty restart". The Linux machine > >recovered. the pack mate display has been behaving a bit strangely, but maybe > >BRLTTY could be made a bit more robust. > > Brltty does things like use non-blocking I/O and subject each I/O operation to > a timeout, so it's hard to see where it might be getting stuck. Also, if this > were a general problem then I'd expect that we'd be getting a lot more reports > of it. > > These things being said, it's always possible that there's something about > your > particular environment which is being a catalyst. Could you keep a running > debug log so that we'll have something to look at the next time it happens? > > -- > I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: http://Mielke.cc/ > EMail: [email protected] | Ottawa, Ontario | Twitter: @Dave_Mielke > Phone: +1 613 726 0014 | Canada K2A 1H7 | > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty -- John J. Boyer Email: [email protected] website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: Company dissolved but website and email addresses live. Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA Mission: developing assistive technology software and providing STEM services that are available at no cost _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
