On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 06:24:13PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:16:26 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I know that the desktop monitors for new devices because when I insert > > a dvd a window pops up asking me what I want to do. For cd/dvd > > burning I'm advised to turn off other things that access the device > > (though I also gather the problems k3b is having verifying probably > > lie elsewhere). > > > > More immediately, I'm having trouble faxing and one possibility is > > that something is interefering with /dev/ttyS0. > > > > Does anyone know what exactly might be doing such things, and how I > > can disable it? I've seen some suggestion that hal is the culprit, > > but nothing definite. > > lsof -w | grep /dev/ttyS0 > > might tell you which process is blocking the device. I already did lsof /dev/ttyS0 which showed faxgetty 8641 uucp 7u CHR 4,64 347 /dev/tts/0
Since that's OK, my thoughts ran to something that might run intermittently. The command you gave produces faxgetty 8641 uucp 3w REG 254,31 17 31312 /var/spool/hylafax/status/ttyS0 faxgetty 8641 uucp 4u FIFO 254,31 31317 /var/spool/hylafax/FIFO.ttyS0 which I guess is the same, since the FIFO is not the device. As a side issue, I'm a bit puzzled by the -w; the man page says it concerns warning messages, but it seems to be doing something else. > > > The system with the fax trouble is Debian testing, KDE 3.5, 2.4 kernel > > (i.e, not udev). The one with the dvd is running 2.6.15 kernel with > > udev. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]