Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx bug while fetching news group list

[Klaus Weide]

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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