Re: Automatic reinitialization, revisited

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:12:56AM -0400, Steve Lammert (slammert@panasas.com) wrote:
> The fortunate thing is that the cards were installed in the machine 
> which is our Conserver at that site.  Here's the unfortunate thing:  We 
> can talk to these devices just fine using "tip" and similar tools, but 
> have (so far) been unable to get Conserver to make use of them.
> 
> produces a string of error messages in /var/log/conserver of the form:
> 
>     conserver (6804): beta2-5-1: exit(3) [Mon Oct 14 21:51:39 2002]
>     conserver (6804): beta2-5-1: automatic reinitialization [Mon Oct 14 
> 21:51:39 2002]
> 
> New messages appear once per second, per serial line.  Imagine the spew 
> if you have 256 of these defined (:-(}
> 
> Is anyone out there using a similar setup (Cyclades Ze on FreeBSD?).  If 
> so, was there any magic involved (e.g. settings in dev/cz/config.h 
> before recompiling the kernel) in getting the devices to play nice with 
> the Conserver?  or did it "just work" for you?

 I couldn't get FreeBSD 4-STABLE to work with conserver on a Cyclades-Z
 either.

 We had our conserver system running FreeBSD 3.2 for some time, but I
 upgraded it to 4-STABLE last month, and ran into exactly the same problem
 you encountered. Other telecom programs could talk to the Cyclades-Z fine,
 but not conserver. I checked with the other guys who reported this problem
 a couple months ago, and nobody'd seemed to have found a solution. (One 
 of the previous posters is from your site, if I recall..)

 I wrestled with it for a day or so, but wound up just installing Linux
 on the aforementioned conserver server. Worked fine, then.  Never tracked
 down if it was a problem with FreeBSD in general, the cz driver, or 
 something within conserver. But at least you know it's not just you.

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