From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 2 8: 5:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3D2B14E73 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 08:05:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA19493; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 01:22:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 08:22:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Tony Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup gui-mode core dumps? In-Reply-To: <99090209310200.17910@fdho-w5.fdnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Tony wrote: > I'm not exactly sure at what point this started occuring but lately when I try > to use cvsup without the -g flag it crashes and burns with: > > -snip- > fdho-w5# cvsup ports-supfile > > > *** > *** runtime error: > *** Segmentation violation - possible attempt to dereference NIL > *** pc = 0x28312fd8 = Cat + 0x18 in ../src/text/Text.m3 > *** > > zsh: abort (core dumped) cvsup ports-supfile > -snap- > > Is this modula 3 bailing out? cvsup -g ports-supfile works and has kept me > current with the stable branch but I'm curious as to why it decided it no longer > wants to run under X. > > fdho-w5# cvsup -v > CVSup client, GUI version > Software version: REL_16_0 > Protocol version: 16.0 > http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/ > Report problems to cvsup-bugs@polstra.com > > I haven't sent anything to cvsup-bugs as in most cases it's not a bug when I > have a problem. More than likely an unnoticed configuration mishap. Hmmm, I talked to John about this a while back, I had problems like this when the machine's hostname was: a) set to a name that had no DNS b) set to an ip address rather than a name. maybe this helps? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message