Subject: Pine aborting when one tries to include a file in the compose screen

From: "Avalon Johnson Unix Team" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:46:39 -0500

We have the following somewhat strange setup on our machines

	A novell netware server which is running as an NFS server (don't ask)
	exporting home directories for about 3000 users.

	4 Sparc Ultras running Solaris 5.5 that NFS mounts these home
		         directories, as well as other home directories from
dedicated NFS
        servers.

	(We had 5 RS6000 running AIX3.2.5 which with the same setup exhibited
	 the same behavior).

	Users run zmail from NCD as well as pine 3.9.1 on these servers with
	the following problems occuring for the users whose home directories
	are mounted from the Novell server, who have a large number of
	files in the current directory (> 50), and who run pine:

		User goes to the compose screen starts to compose a message
		and then decides to include a file, they do ^r^t and
immediately
		pine crashes with the following error:

		     Bug in Pine detected: "Received abort signal".

		the .pine-crash files has the following:

		     Pine Panic: Received abort signal

	The same home directory with the same files mounted from the dedicated
	NFS servers do not exhibit this problem. I was told that on the vax
	pine used to behave like this also.

	Please note that pine 3.9.2 also does the same thing but zmail does
not.

	Does anyone know a possible cause for this ?

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Avalon Johnson                                   Usenet:   [email-masked]
Computing & Communications Services
York University. 

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