[Bug 982] New: cu -l /dev/ttyS0 got a signal hangup in 2.5 kernel

From: Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 00:13:54 EST


http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982

           Summary: cu -l /dev/ttyS0 got a signal hangup in 2.5 kernel
    Kernel Version: 2.5.75
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
             Owner: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
         Submitter: hien1@us.ibm.com
                CC: sglass@us.ibm.com

Distribution: SuSE SLES8
Hardware Environment:NetVista 6579-A4U Pentium III - 866 MHz 256MB RAM
Software Environment:2.5.75 kernel
Problem Description: cu session fails to log into the other machine which is connected with a
null modem serial cable between serial ports.
It works fine in 2.4.19 4GB kernel
 
Steps to reproduce:
  1. connecting two systems with a null modem serial cable between serial ports.
  2. On one machine, do : cu -l /dev/ttyS0
      On other system, have /sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0 vt100 running.
      and ttyS0 has been defined in /etc/securetty
  3. cu session connected and showed you the login prompt.
  4. Got a hangup signal and disconnected after typing "root" or any user ID.
      It supposes to prompt you "password:" to let you type the password of the other machine
      to login to that system.

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