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Subject: elm port in 4.0-RELEASE is broken
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>Number:         19771
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       elm port in 4.0-RELEASE is broken
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 07 17:50:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Fri Aug 18 13:42:46 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Fri Aug 18 13:45:51 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Christoph Weber-Fahr
>Release:        4.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD helena.xx 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Jul  8 02:02:32
 CEST 2000     wefa@helena.xx:/usr/src/sys/compile/HELENA  i386
>Description:
Starting elm as a normal user produces a segmentation violation:
Reading in /var/mail/wefa, message: 0

Segment Violation signal!


Emergency exit taken! All temp files intact!

ABORTING...
Abort


>How-To-Repeat:
Install elm (i tried both the packagage and the port)
make sure there is no /var/mail/yourname
start elm
>Fix:
no idea

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-ports 
Responsible-Changed-By: sheldonh 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jul 10 06:42:26 PDT 2000 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Mis-filed PR. 

Christpoh, have you contacted the port's maintainer, 
toasty@dragondata.com? 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19771 

From: Christoph <cweber@dialup.nacamar.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, cweber@dialup.nacamar.de,
	toasty@dragondata.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/19771: elm port in 4.0-RELEASE is broken
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:13:13 +0200

 Hi,
 
 sorry for the late response. For some reason your state 
 change from Jul 10. wasn't mailed to me.
 
 > Christpoh, have you contacted the port's maintainer, 
 > toasty@dragondata.com? 
 
 No. Should I ? I was under the impression that the gnats 
 system is meant to be the central clearing point for that kind of
 information ?
 
 Regards
 
 Christoph Weber-Fahr
 
 Cc: toasty@dragondata.com
 

From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, cweber@dialup.nacamar.de
Cc:  
Subject: misc/19771: elm port in 4.0-RELEASE is broken
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:19:44 -0500 (CDT)

 Starting elm as a normal user produces a segmentation violation:
       Reading in /var/mail/wefa, message: 0
 
       Segment Violation signal!
 
 
       Emergency exit taken! All temp files intact!
 
       ABORTING...
       Abort
 
 
 
 Sorry for the delay in responding to this, I'm not usually involved with
 GNATS.
 
 I usually see this when your mail file is corrupted in some way. Can you
 send me the first message out of /var/mail/wefa? 
 
 Also, would you be willing to do some testing with gdb to find where it's
 segfaulting? If you need instructions, e-mail me privately.
 
 
 Thanks,
 
 Kevin
 

From: Christoph <cweber@dialup.nacamar.de>
To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>,
	freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/19771: elm port in 4.0-RELEASE is broken
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 02:18:59 +0200

 Hello,
 
 Kevin Day wrote:
 > Sorry for the delay in responding to this, I'm not usually involved with
 > GNATS.
 > 
 > I usually see this when your mail file is corrupted in some way. Can you
 > send me the first message out of /var/mail/wefa?
 
 No. There was no such file.
 
 wefa@helena 2:16 [~] whoami
 wefa
 wefa@helena 2:16 [~] ll /var/mail/
 total 34
 drwxrwxr-x   2 root  mail     512 Aug 13 02:15 ./
 drwxr-xr-x  18 root  wheel    512 Jun 27 19:14 ../
 -rw-------   1 root  wheel  31942 Aug 13 02:03 root
 wefa@helena 2:16 [~] elm
 
 Reading in /var/mail/wefa, message: 0
 
 Segment Violation signal!
 
 
 Emergency exit taken! All temp files intact!
 
 ABORTING...
 Abort
 wefa@helena 2:16 [~]
 
 > Also, would you be willing to do some testing with gdb to find where it's
 > segfaulting? If you need instructions, e-mail me privately.
 
 Yes. I need.
 
 Regards
 
 Christoph Weber-Fahr
 

From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: misc/19771: elm port in 4.0-RELEASE is broken
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 18:24:39 -0500 (CDT)

 This PR can be closed.
 
 The originator was using elm-2.4ME+68, which was on the 4.0 CD set. From a
 later elm-2.4ME ChangeLog, I found:
 
         - "Also, under Solaris 2.6/7, HP-UX 10.20 and
            FreeBSD 3.1, if the mailbox does not exist
            (i.e. /var/mail/user), elm will dump core.
            If the file exists but is zero length, there
            is no problem. This problem does not occur on linux
            (Redhat 6.0 in my tests)."
          Reported by: Zube <Zube@CS.ColoState.EDU>
         - Also happened on IRIX
 
 
 Orginator was advised to upgrade to a newer ELM.
 
 -- Kevin
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed  
State-Changed-By: dannyboy 
State-Changed-When: Fri Aug 18 13:42:46 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Problem resolved by MAINTAINER and closing requested, see Audit-Trail. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19771 
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