[1763] in SIPB bug reports
xrn 6.15 bug on a VAX 3100
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon Mar 18 06:39:31 1991
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 06:38:50 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: gptesler@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: gptesler@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Sun, 17 Mar 91 09:17:14 EST <9103171419.AA14737@w20-575-89.MIT.EDU>
I sent the author of xrn a patch to fix this bug on December 20,
1990. For some reason, he didn't include it in the most recent xrn
release, 6.15. I've just sent it to him again and applied it to our
sources. The problem will be fixed when the sipb locker is released
tonight.
Thanks for the bug report.
--> Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance and User Consulting
Treasurer, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reference:
From: gptesler@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 91 09:17:14 EST
The following sequence of actions consistently causes xrn to bomb:
Select "All groups"
Choose any group, select "Goto group"
Select "Quit"
At this point, the bottom part of the screen contains newsgroups, and
the top contains a list of articles from the group just quit...
Select any article in the top list
Either a dialogue box saying
Caught signal (11), cleaned up .newsrc and removed temp files
[abort] [exit]
appears, if you keep the mouse still... or the outline of such a box appears
if the mouse happens to be moving, with no text ever appearing in it... or
a unix generated message appears in the xterm window from which xrn was run
(I only got this last thing to happen once, so I don't remember the precise
message, but it had something to do with signal 11).
