Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:14:54 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: veldy@visi.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP Problem Message-ID: <199902250514.VAA00609@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <36D3698E.A64EFBB7@visi.com>
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In article <36D3698E.A64EFBB7@visi.com>,
Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy@visi.com> wrote:
> I always get the following error when I try to start cvsup (16) under
> X11. I am behind a firewall if that makes a difference. I start by
> passing -P m as an option:
>
> ***
> *** runtime error:
> ***
> *** Segmentation violation - possible attempt to dereference NIL
> *** pc = 0x28312ff8 = Cat + 0x18 in ../src/text/Text.m3
> ***
>
> This error happens everytime unless I pass the -g switch.
I've seen this kind of thing before in situations where the hostname
and/or DNS setup is incorrect. It's something in the way the Modula-3
runtime uses X11. Make sure your hostname looks up properly in both
directions:
blake$ host `hostname`
blake.polstra.com has address 206.213.73.12
blake$ host 206.213.73.12
12.73.213.206.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer blake.polstra.com
If your $DISPLAY environment variable names a different host, try it
for that one too.
I added an explicit check for this problem in CVSup some time ago, so
you'd get an error message instead of a core dump. But I suspect it
still doesn't cover all the possible failure modes.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
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