On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Stefano Corti wrote:
> > I moved from kiss to 6pack in my TNC EPROMS, and started to use the 6pack
> > driver in 2.2 kernels and spattach, the modified version of kissattach as
> > explained in the README.
> >
> > I found that (as I espected) all ax25 connections now are working better, so
> I
> > want to keep these settings.
> >
> > When I try to release the 6pack connection on the serial port something
> > strange happens:
> >
> > ifconfig sp0 down ----> ok, the interface gets [NO FLAG]
> > killall spattach ------> trouble.
> > killall -KILL spattach ---> same trouble.
> >
> > The 'spattach' process stucks in state 'DW' ; reboot needed.
> >
> > What should I do?
> >
The status D in the ps output means the program is in an uninterruptible
sleep, i.e. it has invoked a system call which does not return. The W
flag means there are no pages of the program resident in the memory.
The program itself has been killed and removed by the kill command..
The system call is still alive, but it hangs. There is no way to remove
this entry except for rebooting the system. To find out what spattach
does when hanging, start it with the line:
strace spattach
The strace command prints any system call used by spattach on the screen.
73 de Andreas
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Andreas K�nsgen * DG3KQ * Aachen, Germnay * EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
