Giuseppe:  Some more info that may be helpful:  I have reviewed my
"/var/log/syslog" files, and have discovered that the faxgetty segfault
only occurs when receiving a fax from one particular sender.  Of the
last 9 faxes received from that sender, 4 came thru OK, and 5 produced
segfaults before being completed.  When they re-send they fax that
produced a segfault, the re-send can segfault on a different page.

I spoke to the sender, and she told me that they have a lot of problems
with that machine.  It is a Konica/Minolta model 2900.

The only other visible pattern concerns what I presume is the page size
on the log entry.  Every other sender produces a line in the log file of
the form:

<stuff>..RECV FAX (....): from <number>,  page 1 in <time>, INF, #
line/mm, 2-D MMR, 14400 bit/s

The offending sender has "A4" where the others have "INF".  (I am in the
USA, where A4 is not a commonly used page size).  The offending sender
also has "1-D MH" where *most* of the others have "2-D MMR".  The 2
other incoming faxes that use "1-D MH" were single page.  The logs cover
a span of 5 days, during which 41 faxes were received, 6 of which ended
prematurely with a segfault.  (One segfault occurred while the first
page was being received, so the log does not report what number it was
originating from).

Regarding the use of gdb: I have not used it before, but I'm willing to
give it a shot.  The messages you referred to, #15 and #21, are both
links to a thread about segfaults occurring when a fax is being sent.
So far, I have never had a segfault during a send, even to the machine
that causes segfaults when we are receiving.  Message #23 appears to
have instructions for using gdb with faxgetty, but they are not very
clear.  Am I to understand that I should run:  killall faxgetty; gdb-
wrapper.sh faxgetty ttyS0?

Thanks,
Mark

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