Subject: Bug in Pine under Solaris 2.5?

From: [email-masked] (Sean Harp)
Date: 17 Jun 1996 14:00:05 GMT

Since we upgraded our machines from Solaris 2.4 to 2.5, we've seen
very problems with Pine.  If a user leaves Pine open for a little
while (somewhere between 10 minutes and 4 hours), they will receive an
error message saying:

	[MAIL FOLDER "INBOX" CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR]

This has only happened since we went to 2.5 and it occurs in all of
the following versions of pine:  3.91, 3.92, 3.93 and 3.94.

There is another message users get every once in a while that
resembles:

	Unable to find newline at XXX in XXX bytes.

Both of these problems appear to be problems in handling tenex format
mail files.  In fact, users that do not use the tenex format have not
had any of these problems.  I have a strong hunch that Pine's tenex
format handling routines and NFS version 3 don't exactly get along
very well.  The only major change I can see that we made when moving
from Solaris 2.4 to Solaris 2.5 was the change in the version of NFS
we use.  Has anyone else seen either of these problems?

Sean

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Sean Harp                            URL: http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~harp
UNIX Systems Programmer                                  email: [email-masked]
Computing & Administrative Systems
Phone: (423) 974-0637

        University of Tennessee, Computing and Administrative Systems
              200 Stokely Management Center, Knoxville, TN 37996
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Sean Harp                            URL: http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~harp
UNIX Systems Programmer                                  email: [email-masked]
Computing & Administrative Systems
Phone: (423) 974-0637

        University of Tennessee, Computing and Administrative Systems
              200 Stokely Management Center, Knoxville, TN 37996
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