[parisc-linux] interesting problem in tty? telnetd? ls?

Richard Hirst rhirst@linuxcare.com
Wed, 19 Sep 2001 23:28:58 +0100


On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:55:13PM -0700, marka@sea.checkpoint.com wrote:
> I'm not sure where this problem is occuring, but I suspect it's telnetd.
> 
> telnet to your pa-risc linux box
> cd to the root directory
> execute 'ls -alR'
> 
> you'll lose your ptty and telnet session after a short while (seconds), but
> never at the the same place during the listing.  This does not occur over the
> serial console, but since that's only running at 9600 it may not be fast
> enough for the drop to occur.

I had this problem; it went away when I move up to a 2.4.9 kernel.

Richard