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- From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
- Subject: Re: gopher 1.1 client dumps core erratically.
- Message-ID: <ellis.726119430@nova>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
- References: <ellis.726033496@nova> <1i7i05INNlmh@nigel.msen.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:50:30 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
-
- >Stew Ellis (ellis@nova.gmi.edu) wrote:
- >: I would really like to update to the 1.1 client from 1.03, but it rather
- >: erratically dumps core on a Segmentation Fault. It may work without
- >: problems for 10 times and then dump every time for the next 10.
-
- >This happened to us too.
-
- >Check your configuration on "alternative gopher servers", the unix
-
- I had blown it in the conf.h file. I had commented out the 2 hosts, put in
- one of my own, and for the second had put 0 (zero), evidently misreading the
- comment about setting the port for the second host to 0. I fixed that and
- in 20 or so startups since then have not had a single fault. Thanks for the
- pointer Ed.
-
- >client randomly picks one from its list of gophers when it starts.
- >(Grep the sources for a random() call!) If one of the several
-
- I could not however find a random anywhere in the source tree. ??
-
- >choices is wrong it will dereference a null pointer and drop core.
-
-
- > Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
- > Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 GLOB
-
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- Humanities & Social Science, GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst. / / / / / /
- Flint, MI 48504 ellis@nova.gmi.edu /________/ / / / /
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