Comment 45 for bug 600219

Hi Nancy (et Al)

I have been investing some time in an attempt to corner this problem.
What I did:
= Downloading the latest version of Hylafax only to find out my box is
  running an older version.
= Downloading the right version and trying to compile it. Then you find
  out that the shared library is newer than the configuration allows.
= After adapting the configuration file I was able to make a faxgetty
  with debug options.
= Since March 24th that faxgetty is running, not failing yet.

So, if it fails I should have some more insight. At the same time I
would like to mention that, on my box, the fax causing the problem
produces a broken/damaged/unreadable .tiff file. So, although the
logging suggests that things go wrong at the beginning of
reception, I'd suspect the problem lies in some special action
(Checksum?) needed when closing the TIFF file.
This fits with the suggestion of Yaztromo, who suggested that
libtiff may be to blame. Also my faxgetty is not failing yet, and I
noted that libtiff has been updated recently! Maybe 1 + 1 = 2?

Your suggestion to restart is called "respawn" and you used to
write one line in /etc/inittab for that. But this is organized
differently in recent versions of Ubuntu. Sorry I can't help you
there.

Regards,

Simon.