Re: 1.3.76: pine startup freezing.

root (root@gomer.mlink.net)
Fri, 22 Mar 1996 01:03:24 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, James L. McGill wrote:

> I can't duplicate this with 1.3.75 and pine 3.91

I've determined that it is not with pine specifically. I startx under
'root'. the 'stty' rows and columns settings are correct for the three
default windows that open automatically for me.

>From one of these xterms, if I do an rlogin to another userid (eg. rlogin
-l gomer gomer) and check 'stty -a', I've discovered that the rows and
columns values are randomly (?) being set correctly or not. It is not
consistant at all. When not set correctly:

speed 9600 baud; rows 0; columns 0; line = 0;

If I start 'pine' at this point, it will freeze and chew up CPU
resources. After I do a kill -9 on the pine process, and check out the
stty -a settings, the rows and columns values are set to 24 and 80
respectively (which is correct).

On the random chance when the stty rows and columns are set correctly
upon rlogin, pine will not freeze.

Under 1.3.77, the same situation still exists.

Anyone have any clue what the hell is going on here?

gomer:~$ stty --version
stty - GNU sh-utils 1.12

I'm still using libc.so.5.0.9 and gcc 2.7.0. Nervous about updating
these still. :)

Greg.