[7197] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Pine Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Mar 10 10:18:02 1999
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, bug-dialup@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:08:16 EST."
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:17:51 EST
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>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...)
Perhaps it's worth saying: I have seen my tty's get frozen like
this before. In fact, pine on Solaris sometimes did it. It
happened, though, in the middle of an ioctl() call, when pine was
trying to lock the user's mail file. (Appartnely, locking and
AFS have some rough edges.) The code would enter the call, and
then just wait around for half an hour before coming out of it.
Sending signals (STOP, HUP, KILL, whatever) did nothing.
In that case, though, both gdb and truss could be used to see
that this is where things were sticking. In the present problems
with the pine file in the sipb locker, I can't even _read_ the
pine file off the disk, let alone execute it.
-Jacob
