[BRLTTY] BRTTY Freeze

[John J. Boyer]

Hi Dave,

I'll try to restart BRLTTY with a debug log. One hint is that the freezes always occur when I am doing mail with fetchmail and mutt. The last one happened while I 
was trying to change the subject in a forwarded message.

John

On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 02:16:42PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by John J. Boyer on 2019/12/03 at 11:07 -0600]
> 
> >My Debian Buster machine with its brltty package and a pack mate display has
> >been freezing from time to time. When it did that today i logged in as root
> >from another machine and typed "service brltty restart". The Linux machine
> >recovered. the pack mate display has been behaving a bit strangely, but maybe
> >BRLTTY could be made a bit more robust.
> 
> Brltty does things like use non-blocking I/O and subject each I/O operation to
> a timeout, so it's hard to see where it might be getting stuck. Also, if this
> were a general problem then I'd expect that we'd be getting a lot more reports
> of it.
> 
> These things being said, it's always possible that there's something about your
> particular environment which is being a catalyst. Could you keep a running
> debug log so that we'll have something to look at the next time it happens?
> 
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