From nobody@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 7 17:49:08 2000 Return-Path: Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id D806837BA49; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:49:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20000708004907.D806837BA49@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:49:07 -0700 (PDT) From: cweber@dialup.nacamar.de Sender: nobody@FreeBSD.ORG To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: elm port in 4.0-RELEASE is broken X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 >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 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 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 To: Kevin Day , 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 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 - 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 >Unformatted: