Re: lynx-dev problem at DejaNews

[*selah*]

On Sat, 2 May 1998, Al Gilman wrote:

> to follow up on what *selah* said:
> 
> > I've been having a problem with the dejanews site. When I try
> > to connect to one of their newsgroups lynx quits and I get a
> > message about there being a possible bug.
> 
> It would help us reproduce the failure if you can give us the URL
> of the page you were at and exactly what you did that got it to
> fail.
> 
> > This didn't used to happen and only started happening in the
> > last few days.
> 
> This part is suspicious, but it shouldn't just up and die on you.
> You might want to try to learn what changes were made to your
> host setup between when it worked and when it didn't.
> 
> If you can trace the section of your Lynx session and send the
> portion of the trace around where it fails that would be
> extremely helpful.
> 
> Al
> 

I was able to turn the trace on, but I wasn't able to find the file that
it wrote the trace to and I'm not sure how to redirect the trace into a
file.

These are the messages I got. The URL is
http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml

The page is the "power search" site and the dump happened when I tried to
do the search (by clicking on the "find" button). This also happened at a
different deja site when I was trying to load a newsgroup.