Re: 1.3.76: pine startup freezing.

James L. McGill (fishbowl@pic.net)
Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:32:32 +0000 (GMT)


I can't duplicate this with 1.3.75 and pine 3.91

g-r-a-t-e-f-u-l-l-y---[ email:<fishbowl@conservatory.com> ]---l-i-v-i-n-g
d-e-a-d-i-c-a-t-e-d---[ http://www.conservatory.com/~fishbowl ]-----l-i-g-h-t

You brute! Knock before entering a ladies room!
On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, root wrote:

> When doing an rlogin to a user account from 'root' on my machine running
> 1.3.75 or 1.3.76 and immediately starting 'pine', it consistantly freezes
> at this poing while chewing up CPU resources. Anything 'nice'd will no
> longer get to run.
>
> I have to kill -9 the 'pine' user process to free the shell. After this
> is done, immediately executing 'pine' works. The problem consistantly
> occurs under a VT and under an xterm.
>
> Perhaps this might have something to do with the what I reported earlier
> (but didn't seem to generate any discussion or response) with the LINES
> and COLUMNS variables in a newly started 'bash' shell not reflecting
> their true window dimensions.
>
> Greg.
>
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