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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx bug while fetching news group list
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Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx bug while fetching news group list |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 19:57:12 -0600 (CST) |
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Jason Castonguay wrote:
> Hi there everyone. I'm not sure if this qualifies as a bug, but I'll tell
> my story and let you figure it out <g>.
>
> I run a Linux PC and have Lynx version 2.7.1F running on it. I connect to
> the Internet via modem using PPP. I issued the following command at the
> command prompt: "lynx news://news.ntplx.net". It connected properly and
> said it was reading list of available news groups. Over a 28.8 K
> connection, this takes a while, so it sat there, receiving the list.
> After a while, it suddenly exited, dumping a core and telling me that I
> had encountered a bug in Lynx. However, I tried this again on a shell
> account provided by my ISP, and it fetched the list successfully (they're
> using lynx version 2.6) and also, theire connection to the news server is
> faster. I'm not sure what there system is, but I'm assuming it is some
> kind of sun work station (upon log in, it says "Sunrose system release
> 4.0), or something to that effect.
>
> I hope this information helps in solving the problem. Thanks for your
> time.
If you got a core file,
gdb lynx core
...
(gdb) where
should give info on where the error occurred. Also see what you get with
TRACE (lynx -trace, maybe lynx -trace -tlog, or the ^T key), maybe the
last lines of trace info can give a hint.
Klaus
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- LYNX-DEV hope the new Lynx release comes out soon!!!!!!!!, Nelson Henry Eric, 1997/11/12
- Re: LYNX-DEV hope the new Lynx release comes out soon!!!!!!!!, Doug Kaufman, 1997/11/13
- Re: LYNX-DEV hope the new Lynx release comes out soon!!!!!!!!, Bill Schiavo, 1997/11/13
- LYNX-DEV Lynx bug while fetching news group list, Jason Castonguay, 1997/11/14
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx bug while fetching news group list,
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- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx bug while fetching news group list, Jason Castonguay, 1997/11/14
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx bug while fetching news group list, Klaus Weide, 1997/11/14
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx bug while fetching news group list, Jason Castonguay, 1997/11/14
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx bug while fetching news group list, Klaus Weide, 1997/11/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx bug while fetching news group list, David Woolley, 1997/11/15
Re: LYNX-DEV hope the new Lynx release comes out soon!!!!!!!!, T.E.Dickey, 1997/11/13