Subject: Pine 3.95 Abort

From: Chip Old <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 13:46:02 -0400 (EDT)

For about a month we have been using Pine 3.95 successfully on our Sun
SPARC 20 under Solaris 2.3.  Rather than compile it locally, I used the
precompiled binaries from the ftp site.
 
However, there have been several occasions within the past few days when
Pine has aborted with the following message:
 
  Problem detected: "Received abort signal".
  Pine Exiting.
  Abort
 
The .pine-debug offers no useful clues, saying only this at the very end
of the file.  Aside from this, .pine-debug shows nothing unusual:
 
  about to end_tty_driver
  Pine Panic: Received abort signal
 
According to reports from our users, this only occurs while composing a
message.  The message is not preserved when Pine aborts, so the user has
to start over from scratch.  Naturally, it's always a very long message. 
:-(
 
Any ideas?
 
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