From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) Subject: Re: Mail -> Segmentation Fault (SLS) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 16:58:39 GMT
visnurpk@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Rich Kernin) writes:
>Well, just found a new problem... Been using the mailpak binaries that came
>with SLS, and all of a sudden ELM wasn't sending mail, it said it would, but
>didn't (which pissed off one of my users :-) upon further investigation it
>seems that the underlying mail program (mail/rmail) gives a "Segmentation
>Fault" when run from the command line. I grabbed the sources, and recompiled
>using GCC 2.2.2d and v1.3 of mailpak, but got the same response. I'm using
>a v0.98pl5 compiled using the SLS environment. I believe that gdb traced the
>error to a call to write()... anyone run into this, or have any ideas?
>Thanks!
one underlying problem is that the uucp programs are seg faulting.
drop back to a kernel prior to 0.98-5 and it'll go away.
another underlying problem might be that you're using Ed's obsolete custom
mail program from mailpak1.3 (gone in the coming 1.4 according to him).
Grab smail3.1.28 from the newspak directory on sunsite. It works fine with
0.98-5.
(has anybody gotten uucp to work with a 0.98-5 kernel? I even get seg
faults when I rebuild Taylor UUCP 1.03 from sources).
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