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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: "Michael J. Ruhl" <mruhl@network-alchemy.com>
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Subject: Re: cvsup crash
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* Michael J. Ruhl <mruhl@network-alchemy.com> [000306 12:11] wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I have been using cvsup for a while, and recently it started doing
> this:
> 
> % cvsup stable-supfile
> 
> 
> ***
> *** runtime error:
> ***    Segmentation violation - possible attempt to dereference NIL
> ***    pc = 0x28313fd8 = Cat + 0x18 in ../src/text/Text.m3
> ***
> 
> Abort(core dumped)
> 
> If I run it with the -g flag (no X windows) it works fine.  Does
> anybody have any ideas why this is happening?

I've had this happen when there was a DNS problem, make sure your
hostname resolves both forward and backward.

-Alfred


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