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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:05:18 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro>
To:        Gerald Ehritz <ehritz@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pine 3.96 locks 3.0-980621 completely
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980729125914.5895A-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
In-Reply-To: <199807290837.KAA11970@arcturus.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

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Hi,

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Gerald Ehritz wrote:

> Hi to all who contributed to this,
> 
> I made a test with pine 4.02 today, and it also locks up the machine
>completely.

 Hmmm, so no luck even with the latest...

> 
> So i want to clear up what was gouing on till now:
> 
> 1.) We used a FreeBSD 2.2 box for modem login since 2 years. In June i
>upgraded to 3.0 snap and everything works except pine locks up the pc.
> 
> 2.) We allways had NFS mounted mail- and user- dirs! ( and it worked).
>No changes on the server (SunOS 4.1.3_U1).

 Changes have been made on the client side anyway; maybe this is all
about it...

> 
> 3.) All versions of pine (2.2.6 code, 3.0 code, version 3.96, 4.0 and
>4.02) kill the machine IF i write out an attachment ( may be > 100k size)
>to the home dir (NFS mounted), works if write it to /tmp! 

 This (almost) excludes Pine from being guilty...

> 
> 4.) Pine works IF i only read and write mails (mail NFS mounted)!
> 
> 
> Next week i have a chance to upgrade to a newer version of 3.0, but i
>am asking me if it really stop pine from crashing.

 How are you upgrading ? make world/installing from zero ? If you were
making world you might want to try reinstalling from scratch... there
might have been some leftover pieces (?!?) from the previous version
(possibly 2.2.6 ?)...

> 
> May be it's a problem with mmap, but how can i check it?
> Was my old FreeBSD without mmap?
> 
> regards,
> Gerald
> ________________________________________________________
> Gerald Ehritz		ehritz@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
> Institut f. Informationssysteme
> Technische Universitaet Wien
> ________________________________________________________
> 

 Just my $0.02,
 Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro)


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