[Serusers] Strange SER hanging problem

[Jason]

Chris,
When I start SER directly, I don't get any output.  Looks like 
this:
<SNIP>
shell#ser
</SNIP>
On Tue Dec 28 03:03:50 PST 2004, Chris <ser at cannes.f9.co.uk> 
wrote:

> Had a similar issue in getting trying to get diagnostic output 
> rather than
> the uninformative segmentation error.
> Found that starting with --> "serctl start" or --> 
> "/etc/rc.d/init.d/ser start" gave no useful output (i.e. just the 
> segmentation error)
> but starting the real ser directly gave the debug info.
> Presumably this is by design but I had not seen mention in the
> documentation.
> Cheers
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: serusers-bounces at lists.iptel.org 
> [mailto:serusers-bounces at lists.iptel.org] On
> Behalf Of Jason
> Sent: 27 December 2004 18:56
> To: serusers at lists.iptel.org
> Subject: [Serusers] Strange SER hanging problem Jiri,
> Thanks for the advice.  However, I've already tried this - I 
> meant to have already told you this.  I've toggled between debug 
> 7 and debug 3, as well as fork yes and no, and log_stderror yes 
> and no.  I've also put random comments in the file to see if ser 
> complains.  Doesn't make a difference at all.  Still hangs.  Your 
> help is much appreciated.  What do you think I should try next in 
> order to identify where the problem is?  Here is a clip from the 
> top of ser.cfg, from what I last tried.
> 
> <SNIP>
> # ----------- global configuration parameters 
> ------------------------
> 
> blah blah Please parse this file
> #debug=3         # debug level (cmd line: -dddddddddd)
> #fork=yes
> #log_stderror=no        # (cmd line: -E)
> 
> debug=7
> #debug=3
> fork=no
> log_stderror=no
> 
> blah
> </SNIP>
> 
> 
> 
> Try increasing log level and sending us the log output -- we may 
> then
> perhaps see where it is hanging. If that does not get us any 
> further,
> phase II will be strace I guess.
> 
> -jiri
> 
> At 06:21 AM 12/27/2004, Jason Ostrom wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I have not been able to get my SER to work properly on this SuSE 
>> Linux
>> Pro 9.2 machine.  SER appears to hang endlessly.  The binary 
>> compiled
>> from src just fine.  I can't tell exactly where the problem is, 
>> can
>> anyone lend help in deciphering where to find the culprit, 
>> please?
> 
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