Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!utoday!greenber From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Xenix probs... Message-ID: <941@utoday.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 14:37:31 GMT Organization: Unix Today!, Manhasset, NY Lines: 25 An odd problem has been hitting us here. We run with a Compaq 386, running the latest version of Xenix. Computone Serial card. About once per week, something is trashing the system. Not a panic. Instead, it kills the tty drivers in some magical and mystical way. First symptom is that the tty's (even the console) starts to drop characters. Then, it loses echo. Then, things like mail will say "not a character device". Occasioannly, an "stty sane" will bring things back to normal on that one port for a while, but it will screw up rapidly again. I'm pulling out hair trying to figure out what process is running before the screw-up. The only thing I can ascertain is that it almost always happens during a UUCP connection to a remote site. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem, and (if so) what did you do to resolve it? Thanks! -- Ross M. Greenberg UNIX TODAY! 594 Third Avenue New York New York 10016 Review Editor Voice:(212)-889-6431 BBS:(212)-889-6438 uunet!utoday!greenber BIX: greenber MCI: greenber CIS: 72461,3212