From: Jessie Kleefstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:54:50 -0400 (EDT)

Has anyone experienced this problem and maybe have a hint as to what the
fix may be. We are running Pine 4.21 with Solaris 7. We have installed the
recommended patches. We see this happening on low to medium load.  The
error in Pine is 'formatting scroll text   80%' (the percentage is not
always the same). Pine then freezes. You could be in Pine doing anything
when the error occurs. It seems to be happening more frequently and
frequently, especially seeming to happen at a lower load. 

Our analyst has done a Truss and this is what he is seeing.
The symptoms are similar in that the functions called are the same
but the address arguments are different. The return values are the same
except for time (of course). He is attempting to rule out hardware
problems. Below is an example of the output from Truss. Any ideas?

Script started on Tue Apr 18 09:28:00 2000
mcmail# truss -p 8016
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM, in poll() [caught]
poll(0xFFBE8714, 1, 5000)			Err#91 ERESTART
time()						= 956064507
sigaction(SIGALRM, 0xFFBE7FA0, 0xFFBE80C4)	= 0
alarm(1)					= 0
setcontext(0xFFBE8370)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM, in poll() [caught]
poll(0xFFBE8714, 1, 5000)			Err#91 ERESTART
time()						= 956064508
sigaction(SIGALRM, 0xFFBE7FA0, 0xFFBE80C4)	= 0
alarm(1)					= 0
setcontext(0xFFBE8370)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM, in poll() [caught]
poll(0xFFBE8714, 1, 5000)			Err#91 ERESTART
time()						= 956064509
sigaction(SIGALRM, 0xFFBE7FA0, 0xFFBE80C4)	= 0
alarm(1)					= 0
setcontext(0xFFBE8370)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM, in poll() [caught]
poll(0xFFBE8714, 1, 5000)			Err#91 ERESTART
time()						= 956064510
sigaction(SIGALRM, 0xFFBE7FA0, 0xFFBE80C4)	= 0
alarm(1)					= 0
setcontext(0xFFBE8370)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM, in poll() [caught]
poll(0xFFBE8714, 1, 5000)			Err#91 ERESTART
time()						= 956064511
sigaction(SIGALRM, 0xFFBE7FA0, 0xFFBE80C4)	= 0
alarm(1)					= 0
setcontext(0xFFBE8370)
poll(0xFFBE8714, 1, 5000)	(sleeping...)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM, in poll() [caught]
poll(0xFFBE8714, 1, 5000)			Err#91 ERESTART
time()						= 956064512
sigaction(SIGALRM, 0xFFBE7FA0, 0xFFBE80C4)	= 0
alarm(1)					= 0

Ad nauseum

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Jessie Kleefstra                      E-Mail: [email-masked]
Sr. Consultant, Helpdesk Services     Phone: (905) 525-9140  ext.  24357        
Computing & Information Services      Fax: (905) 528-3773
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McMaster University                 

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