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By: rrt

What version of the kernel, what version of plptools, what sort of serial port?

On some platforms and under some conditions (though precisely what I've never
pinned down) you need to start up plptools once, shut it down and restart it
for it to work properly. This has seemed to happen mostly with USB serial ports.

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By: tomrevilla

[tommy@... jpl]$ uname -a
Linux hal9000.lan 2.6.17-5mdv #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 14:32:31 EDT 2006 i686 Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz GNU/Linux

[root@... tommy]# ncpd -V
ncpd Version 0.15

I have a conventional serial port, direct link to the pc using the cable (no
usb adapter). The port should be working because when I open the Comms program
in the psion it starts to display characters (of course, rubish).

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By: rrt

OK, so your hardware is straightforward (hence there should be no kernel problems),
and you're reasonably up-to-date with plptools.

What happens if you restart plptools?

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By: tomrevilla

You mean this?:

[tommy@... ~]$ /usr/sbin/plpnfsd # as normal user, ncpd was started already
at boot
Owner set to tommy.tommy
[tommy@... ~]$ df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             793M  147M  646M  19% /
/dev/hdb1             190G  124G   67G  65% /home
/dev/hda8             550M   59M  491M  11% /tmp
/dev/hda6              17G  4.0G   13G  24% /usr
/dev/hda7             997M  277M  720M  28% /var
[tommy@... ~]$ ls /mnt/psion/
proc/
[tommy@... ~]$ ls /mnt/psion/proc/
acache  dcache  debuglevel  exit  unixowner

Again nothing. What I am doing wrong? If I disable the automatic service, could
you please tell me the exact sequence of commands? or how to monitor the connection.
This important bit of documentation is still lacking, I mean a tutorial.

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By: rrt

The reason there's no guide is because this stuff is a) platform-dependent and
b) standard on each platform. I expect that you want to run

/etc/init.d/plptools restart

to restart plptools. You could try googling for something like "restart system
service mandriva".

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By: tomrevilla

[root@... tommy]# /etc/init.d/psion restart
Stopping Psion support ...
  plpprintd:                                                    [  OK  ]
  ncpd:                                                         [  OK  ]
Starting Psion support ...
  ncpd:                                                         [  OK  ]
  plpprintd:                                                    [  OK  ]

Nothing new happens, the /mnt/psion directory still shows the proc directory
only. The mount command show this line: localhost:/psion on /mnt/psion type
nfs (hard,intr)

but the psion does not appear listed by the df command.


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By: rrt

OK, can you give me the output of dmesg (something like dmesg | tail -40 or
possibly sudo dmesg|tail -40) immediately after you restart the service?

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By: tomrevilla

[root@... safe]# /etc/init.d/psion restart
Stopping Psion support ...
  plpprintd:                                                    [  OK  ]
  ncpd:                                                         [  OK  ]
Starting Psion support ...
  ncpd:                                                         [  OK  ]
  plpprintd:                                                    [  OK  ]
[root@... safe]# dmesg | tail -40
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x34 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x03
}
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1229248
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 307312
hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x34 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x03
}
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1229188
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 307297
hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x34 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x03
}
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1232564
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 308141
hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x34 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x03
}
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1234320
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 308580
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

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By: rrt

Thanks. I think dmesg was a red herring; can you do the same for /var/log/daemon.log,
i.e.

sudo grep ncpd /var/log/daemon.log

? You could also try /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog if that gives nothing;
I'm not well up on the current state of RedHat.

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By: tomrevilla

greping /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog gave no output

I was reading some connectivity info from the linux on psion howto, they mention
the requirement of the ttyAM1 serial port. I looked at /dev and I couldn't found
such port, only the tyyS[0-3], could that be the reason?

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By: rrt

I've never heard of /dev/ttyAM1, and I certainly don't have it myself, so I
think that's a read herring.

Did you try grepping /var/log/daemon.log too? From your previous messages it's
obvious that ncpd is running (because you can see some entries in /mnt/psion).

Check that you have the correct serial port listed in /etc/plptools.conf. It'll
probably be /dev/ttyS0; are you indeed using your first (or only) serial port?

If none of this works, we're into running ncpd manually and seeing what happens:
stop plptools with

/etc/init.d/plptools stop

then run ncpd:

sudo ncpd -s /dev/ttyS0 -d

and paste the output.

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By: tomrevilla

[root@... ~]# ncpd -s /dev/ttyS0 -d &  # I also tried with ttyS1
[root@... ~]# grep ncpd /var/log/messages
Jan 12 19:16:03 localhost ncpd[2796]: Got SIGTERM
Jan 12 19:16:03 localhost ncpd[2796]: terminating
Jan 12 19:19:51 localhost ncpd: Got SIGTERM
Jan 12 19:19:51 localhost ncpd: terminating
Jan 12 19:21:23 localhost ncpd: Got SIGTERM
Jan 12 19:21:23 localhost ncpd: terminating

Maybe some indication here?:
[root@... ~]# cat /var/log/syslog | tail -20
Jan 12 19:25:10 localhost plpnfsd[4624]: could not create rfsv or rpcs object,
connect delayed
Jan 12 19:25:10 localhost plpnfsd[4625]: to stop the server do "echo stop >
/mnt/psion/proc/exit".
Jan 12 19:25:21 localhost kernel: NFS: server localhost error: fileid changed
Jan 12 19:25:21 localhost kernel: fsid 0:12: expected fileid 0xc, got 0x0
Jan 12 19:25:23 localhost plpnfsd[4625]: plpnfsd: terminating.

I have two serial ports, but I don't know which one is (physically) COM1/ttyS0
and COM2/ttyS1, so I did the test using both. With respect to /var/log/daemon.log,
i don't have this file, and I asked the ppl from the Mandriva forum for the
equivalent. The Mandriva packager(s) changed several things, the /etc/init.d/plptools
is /etc/init.d/psion (but I checked the contents are the same, and plptools.conf
is /etc/sysconfig/psion. I'll try to get in contact with the packager (Buchan
Milne <bgmilne@...>) to ask him if he actually tested the pack. Otherwise
I'll install the thing from sources (which compiles in my system, fortunatelly).

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By: rrt

> Jan 12 19:25:10 localhost plpnfsd[4624]: could not create rfsv or rpcs object,
connect delayed

This is a familiar message when something is up with ncpd.

The ncpd messages never note the connection of a Psion device. One thing to
note, though, is that plpftp is easier to get working than plpnfsd, so you may
want to try that first.

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