faxgetty crash

[nuzzosono]

Hi everybody, I did a quick search but I didn't find any clue to solve my problem.

I have set up a small server to work like an Hylafax server.

The machine is an old pentium with the latest version on ubuntu running (9.10 karmic koala)

I installed hylafax via official repository (apy-get hylafax-server etc)

The problem is that the component faxgetty crash very frequent, I asked to the hylafax forum but they told me that probably in an os problem.

This is the log that I found in the moment of the crash:

 
Feb 15 17:48:00 faxserver FaxGetty[14137]: MODEM PHILIPS BU PC ADD ON CARDS#012P
CA22EV (33600) 33.6 FAX MODEM 336/
Feb 15 18:08:44 faxserver FaxGetty[14137]: ANSWER: FAX CONNECTION DEVICE '/dev/
ttyS0'
Feb 15 18:09:01 faxserver kernel: [553607.496064] faxgetty[14137]: segfault at a
40 ip 0805c073 sp bfe941f0 error 4 in faxgetty[8048000+72000]

any idea?

Where can I start from?

Thanks in advance.

[nuzzosono]

up! Please!!

[valentijnsessink]

Same problem here, with almost the same message: faxgetty[3988]: segfault at a3d ip 0805c083 sp bf923ad0 error 4 in faxgetty[8048000+72000]

Did you find out what goes wrong?

[yaztromo]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ax/+bug/600219

[hhubris]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ax/+bug/600219

It seems there was a fix committed, I'm assuming to the original Debian packages.

What is the quickest way I will be able to get this fix applied to a 10.04.1 LTS installation?

Thank you in advance for any help.

[cphuntington97]

Did we ever find a solution to this? Also running 10.04.2 LTS. Would greatly appreciate a patch.

In the mean time, could anyone provide a script that watches the logs for faxgetty to crash and restarts hylafax or faxgetty when this happens? I am not much of a wizard.

[yaztromo]

Since the Hylafax bug in 10.04 I just run the Hardy 8.04 packages

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/hylafax-server

They work fine on Karmic and I don't get any crashes.

[jringoot]

Thanks for the tip yaztromo, but installing the previous version of hylafax is not so straightforward, see below:

root@cal-04:~/config# uname -a
Linux cal-04 2.6.32-34-generic #77-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 13 19:40:53 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
root@cal-04:~/config# dpkg -i /root/config/hylafax-server_4.4.3-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 219533 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace hylafax-server 2:4.4.3-1 (using .../hylafax-server_4.4.3-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement hylafax-server ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hylafax-server:
hylafax-server depends on hylafax-client (= 2:4.4.3-1); however:
Version of hylafax-client on system is 2:6.0.3-5.1ubuntu1.
hylafax-server depends on metamail; however:
Package metamail is not installed.
hylafax-server depends on sharutils; however:
Package sharutils is not installed.
dpkg: error processing hylafax-server (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
hylafax-server
root@cal-04:~/config#
root@cal-04:~/config# apt-get install metamail
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package metamail is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package metamail has no installation candidate
root@cal-04:~/config#

[yaztromo]

Your first dependency problem could be solved by also installing the hardy client deb for hylafax too from packages.ubuntu.com.

Also for metamail try getting the hardy package for that as well. It is a long time since I rolled back hylafax so I might have to had to manually install metamail too.

So....

- Grab the hardy packages for metamail and hylafax-client from packages.ubuntu.com
- Put all the packages into one dpkg -i command like dpkg -i metamail-blah.deb hylafax-client-blah.deb hylafax-server-blah.deb

Maybe that will work.

[jringoot]

I installed these, last friday 2011/10/07:

hylafax-client_6.0.5-5ubuntu2_i386.deb
root@cal-04:~/config# dpkg -I hylafax-client_6.0.5-5ubuntu2_i386.deb
new debian package, version 2.0.
size 335084 bytes: control archive= 2689 bytes.
95 bytes, 4 lines conffiles
835 bytes, 20 lines control
2452 bytes, 36 lines md5sums
1867 bytes, 69 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh
351 bytes, 16 lines * postrm #!/bin/sh
32 bytes, 1 lines shlibs
Package: hylafax-client
Source: hylafax
Version: 2:6.0.5-5ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Installed-Size: 896
Pre-Depends: libpaper-utils
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libtiff4, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), enscript | libgnomeprint-data, ucf, gsfonts, ghostscript
Recommends: netpbm, transfig
Suggests: mgetty-viewfax
Conflicts: mgetty-fax
Section: comm
Priority: extra
Homepage: http://www.hylafax.org
Description: Flexible client/server fax software - client utilities
The HylaFAX client software communicates with a HylaFAX server via TCP/IP.
.
HylaFAX support the sending and receiving of facsimiles, the polled
retrieval of facsimiles and the send of alphanumeric pages.
Original-Maintainer: Giuseppe Sacco <eppesuig@debian.org>

hylafax-server_6.0.5-5ubuntu2_i386.deb
root@cal-04:~/config# dpkg -I hylafax-server_6.0.5-5ubuntu2_i386.deb
new debian package, version 2.0.
size 1110372 bytes: control archive= 15298 bytes.
9329 bytes, 201 lines conffiles
1192 bytes, 21 lines control
12046 bytes, 181 lines md5sums
9359 bytes, 304 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh
1181 bytes, 40 lines * postrm #!/bin/sh
192 bytes, 11 lines * prerm #!/bin/sh
10626 bytes, 74 lines templates
Package: hylafax-server
Source: hylafax
Version: 2:6.0.5-5ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Installed-Size: 3968
Depends: hylafax-client (= 2:6.0.5-5ubuntu2), libc6 (>= 2.11), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libtiff4, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libtiff-tools (>= 3.6.1-3), bsd-mailx | mailx, psmisc, sed (>= 4.1.2), ghostscript, adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), exim4-daemon-light | mail-transport-agent
Suggests: mgetty, psrip
Conflicts: capi4hylafax (<< 1:01.02.03-4), mgetty-fax
Section: comm
Priority: extra
Homepage: http://www.hylafax.org
Description: Flexible client/server fax software - server daemons
This package support the sending and receiving of facsimiles, the polled
retrieval of facsimiles and the send of alphanumeric pages.
.
The host running the server must have either a Class 1, Class 2, or a
Class 2.0 fax modem attached to one of its serial ports. End-user
applications to manage the transmission of documents via facsimile are
provided separately by the hylafax-client package.
Original-Maintainer: Giuseppe Sacco <eppesuig@debian.org>
root@cal-04:~/config#


they appear stable, working since last week friday without error.
Received 26 faxes since then.