Subject: Pine 3.95 crashes UNIX - sun4

From: Koen Claessen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 14:49:56 -0800

Hi there,

I have this problem that Pine often crashes UNIX machines. I am using 3.95
on a sun4. Does anybody else has this problem?

The behavior is as follows:  You are typing an email in pine and suddenly
the machine doesn't respond anymore. All the xterms you have on the
machine become very slow.  Sometimes there is just enough time to type in
`top', and you can see that pine takes 70 - 80% of the CPU time. Then,
after a few seconds, it's over.  Sometimes pine displays the message:
"Cannot allocate 16 bytes", even when I am alone here and running no other
processes than an xterm. 

Who has the same problem? Who can help me? 

Regards,
Koen.

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 22 Dec 1996 15:58:52 GMT

>on a sun4. Does anybody else has this problem?

You left out the most important datum:  what OS?

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 10:52:49 +0800 (GMT)

> You left out the most important datum:  what OS?

	The header showed SUN in the messageID.  So, tht would make it 
SunOS4.X.  It would still be nice to know the X and what compiler was
used, cc or gcc.

	Ed

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From: "R. Stewart Ellis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 22:31:05 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Edward M Greshko wrote:

> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 10:52:49 +0800 (GMT)
> From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
> To: "R. Stewart Ellis" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Pine Info <[email-masked]>,
>     Koen Claessen <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: Pine 3.95 crashes UNIX - sun4
> 

Are you sure?  Since I use a real newsreader, I have no idea what the
headers Pine constructs for news articles look like.  To me SUN is
diagnostic of nothing except hardware.  Solaris is as much SUN as anything
else.  If it were Solaris, then this could be the bug that was reported with
a patch on September 4.  If it is indeed SunOS (actually Solaris is
SunOS5.x), then this would be a new bug report.

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 11:48:41 +0800 (GMT)

> SunOS5.x), then this would be a new bug report.

	Suppose I wasn't quite clear, sorry.

	I'm on the mailing list pine-info.  The original poster's headers
show:

Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

	This indicates that "build sun" was used instead of "build sol".
The "build sun" is for SunOS4.X while the "build sol" is for SunOS5.X or
Solaris.  So, that would lead me to conclude the OS in question to
be SunOS4.X.  Unless, or course, the Makefiles, etc., were hacked to make
"build sun" build a Solaris environment...but I would think that somewhat
unlikely.

	Regards,

		Ed

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From: "R. Stewart Ellis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 22:58:17 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Edward M Greshko wrote:

> Return-Path: <[email-masked]>
> Received: from cdshub.cdc.com by gmi.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
> 	id WAA08057; Tue, 24 Dec 1996 22:49:15 -0500
> Received: from calvin.twntpe.cdc.com by cdshub.cdc.com; Tue, 24 Dec 1996 21:49:45 -0600
> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 11:48:41 +0800 (GMT)
> cc: Pine Info <[email-masked]>,
> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961224222745.20872E-100000@nova>

Above is my pine version.

> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

This is yours.

> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> Content-Length: 1535
> 

OK.  Inspecting the headers of this message, I see that the second word in
the pine version info is derived from the "build x" command.

I guess his bug is not the dreaded Solaris death bug.