Package: wvdial Version: 1.56-1.2 Severity: normal I recently upgraded my serial console server from Sarge to Etch. During the upgrade while setting it up it seemed to scan all my serial ports. It seemed to try a few baud rates and a few AT commands to gather some information. Usually this would be quite useful, but in my case I have several usb serial adapters that are connected to serial ports on other servers. After the upgrade I found a few of the sun boxes sitting at an "ok" prompt, obviously something along the line sent a break to them which dropped them to prom. Probably it was not a proper break but a bunch of nulls which look just like a break at the other end.
If would be nice if the setup script asked if it would be ok to probe. Alternatively it could check if the port is allready in use. Probably fuser would do the job:- $ fuser /dev/ttyUSB8 /dev/ttyUSB8: 4193 $ $ fuser /dev/ttyS0 $ Regards -- Tom -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages wvdial depends on: ii debconf 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libuniconf4.2 4.2.2-2.2 C++ network libraries for rapid ap ii libwvstreams4.2-base 4.2.2-2.2 C++ network libraries for rapid ap ii libwvstreams4.2-extras 4.2.2-2.2 C++ network libraries for rapid ap ii libxplc0.3.13 0.3.13-1 Light weight component system ii ppp 2.4.4rel-8 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daem wvdial recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * wvdial/phone: wvdial/passphrases_mismatch: wvdial/wvdialconf: true * wvdial/login: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
