[7196] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Pine Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Mar 10 10:08:24 1999
To: Jesse Kornblum <jessek@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, bug-dialup@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Mar 1999 20:08:28 EST."
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:08:16 EST
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Jesse Kornblum <jessek@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>Hi! I'm trying to use pine on x.dialup and it's not working. I've found
>that the version in the SIPB locker just hangs while the outland version
>works fine. Any ideas?
I reproduced this both last night and this morning; it is as you
say. I'm mystified, because I haven't seen behavior like this
before. When I try to run /mit/sipb/bin/pine, my tty freezes.
The only way I've found to unstick it is to kill the "screen"
screen that it's running in.
Oddly, "file /mit/sipb/bin/pine" _also_ freezes my tty. In fact,
_any_ attempt to read from the file (file, emacs, od) seems to
freeze the tty into a state where you can no longer get any work
done with it. (Thank goodness for screen...)
So, I don't know what's going on, but I begin to suspect that
it's a state-of-x.dialup problem.
I notice that "/usr/bin/w" and "/usr/ucb/ps uww" also cause my
x.dialup terminal to freeze up on me (although "/usr/ucb/ps uw"
works fine..). These can all be ^C'd, though, while reading the
pine file resists this.
Maybe the bug-dialup people have more experience with weird
problems like this..
-Jacob Morzinski
