[12458] in Athena Bugs
sun4 [7.7G]: xcodecenter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alexp@MIT.EDU)
Tue Aug 23 18:27:19 1994
From: alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 94 18:27:12 -0400
To: yandros@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU
OK, I snarfed the files from your directory before you deleted them. Can
you give me the exact sequence of operations that produces the
core dump that I can report to CenterLine? (I just license and install
software around here- Don't have time to actually learn how to use most
of it :-)
Alex
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>Subject: sun4 [7.7G]: xcodecenter
>X-Orgs: MIT SIPB VWA DCNS
>X-Shabby: not
>X-Local-Bert: while he's away
>Content-Length: 1404
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>System name: infocalypse
>Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7G
>Display type: cgthree
>
>What were you trying to do?
>
> Get used to xcodecenter's new GUI, but that's not important right
> now. I was trying to load some files into xcodecenter.
>
>What went wrong?
>
> xcodecenter's new gui is a dramatic step downwards from it's
> previous pretty-bad GUI, but that's beside the point. After finally
> managing to convey to xcodecenter that I really did want it to load
> my c files, it tried... on the third file, it spun for about a
> minute and then dumped core.
>
> The files are ~yandros/project/bugs/rpd/src/*.c I believe it was
> working on handle_request.c at the time, but I'm not certain.
>
> The coredump will stay in ~yandros/tmp/core.xcodecenter.sun4.gz for
> 1 week, after which I will remove it.
>
>What should have happened?
>
> CenterLine should run their software through itself, but I suspect,
> given what I just saw, that they'd rather not waste the time
> fighting with the interface.
>
>Anything else you'd like to add?
>
> Yeah, I'm in a bad mood. Could you tell? :-)
>
> Seriously, though, since this is a sun-xcodecenter-dumps-core bug
> instead of a decstation-xcodecenter-dumps-core bug, perhaps
> CenterLine will pay attention this time.
>
> Also, it's a good thing that I was working in a large volume; the
> coredump was over 6M. The gzip'd file is a mere 1.3M. Get it
> soon. :-)
>
>NETPROB-NOTE:
>Note: shabby Sat Aug 13 14:57:56 1994
>mailed to f_l
>------
>NETPROB-NOTE:
>Note: shabby Sat Aug 13 15:02:01 1994
>mailed to alexp (according to the README.athena file in /mit/codecenter4, he's>
>the maintainer)
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