[19835] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.0.13: dialups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben)
Mon Sep 24 23:50:54 2001
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:50:53 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200109250350.XAA05633@buzzword-bingo.mit.edu>
From: Ben <blout@MIT.EDU>
To: kolya@mit.edu
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <200109102340.TAA408861@oliver.mit.edu> (message from Nickolai
Zeldovich on Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:40:17 -0400)
Happened again. Also Buzzword bingo this time.
But, not in emacs. Lynx this time. From my terminal's screen:
[INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE]
Enter a whereis query: d11buzzword-bingo~> [1] Hangup
find_user dbyuUp and Down to move. Right to follow a link; Left to go
back.
/var/tmp/.netscape-cache-blout: No such file or directoryelete]=history
list
The /var/tmp... is from my .logout.
Do you want me to keep reporting these problems?
-Ben
>cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:40:17 -0400
>From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>
>
>Hi,
>
>> Starting sometime this summer, I am getting logged out of the dialups
>> without warning.
>
>We believe this might be due to a bug in Solaris libc causing utmp
>corruption. An updated libc without this bug has been deployed to
>the dialups now. Let us know if you're still having such problems
>(preferably including the dialup name and approximate logout time)
>and we'll look at this further.
>
>-- kolya
