Hi I currently have one computer running woody with a serial terminal on ttyS0 and use a pl2303 usb-to-serial converter on the client side to access it. It basically works quite well, with one exeception: every time i close a terminal programm (i tried minicom and gtkterm) it segfaults and if i try to start one again after this, it hangs while startup and i am not able to to stop it (even with kill -9). the only way i get it working again, is to restart the computer..this is a bit strange, and anoying. (i tried to reload the driver module, but modprobe reports it busy and so i'm unable to do it) Since if this was an normal behavior if you use gtkterm or minicom to access a serial console somebody should have noticed, i think, i belive the problem is more likely in the driver or in the interaction driver/terminal emulation. So, my question is if anybody has noticed this behavior too, and if so has found a solution. If not, can anybody perhaps point me to any guide/howto for trying to isolate such problems (even though i'm not copletly new to programming as such, i'm completly new to kernel debuging...)? Even though it is not a serious problem (rebooting on the client is not a real big problem), it is nevertheless anoying. thanks in advance for any help yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <a_d@gmx.at>
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