very rare problem with mgetty...

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Ramon Fernandez wrote:

>   After reading the FAQ, I haven't been able to solve my problem.
>   "mgetty" won't answer the phone (the modem works!), and I get
>   whese weird messages on the "syslog" console:
>
> Aug 24 12:54:58 filemon mgetty[6483]: init chat failed, exiting...: Interrupted system call

[ snip diagnostic info]

>
>   I've tried to downgrade mgetty to 1.1-18, but doesn't work either.
>   Any idea?
>

I had this same problem and it turned out to be my cable.  The bad cable worked fine with
minicom but not with mgetty.

Eric
  estabroo@talkware.net