Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!psuvax1!vu-vlsi!devon!paul From: paul@devon.UUCP Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Problems with inews at patch 13 Message-ID: <501@devon.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 00:15:25 EST Article-I.D.: devon.501 Posted: Fri Dec 4 00:15:25 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 03:05:27 EST Organization: Devon Computer Services, Allentown, PA Lines: 75 Keywords: bug inews patch13 After applying patch 13 to my 2.11 sources (which were stable at patch 12), I encountered the following problem: % postnews Is this message in response to some other message? n Subject: Test Keywords: Test Newsgroups (enter one at a time, end with a blank line): The most relevant newsgroup should be the first, you should add others only if your article really MUST be read by people who choose not to read the appropriate group for your article. But DO use multiple newsgroups rather than posting many times. For a list of newsgroups, type ? > local.test > Distribution (default='local', '?' for help) : [ test article edited here ] What now? [send, edit, list, quit, write, append] s Posting article... Article not posted - exit status 139 Exit status 139 (128 & 11) would be signal 11 (SIGSEGV). Here is the article I was attempting to post: % cat /tmp/post008025 Subject: Test Newsgroups: local.test Distribution: local Keywords: test This is a test % Using ADB, I see that the cause of the problem is a call to free() with a 0 (or NULL) value: % adb dist/src/inews core $c _ngfchec+3292: _free (0x0) _insert+100: _ngfchec(0x139A4, 0x0, 0x0) _main+3632: _insert () start+58: _main (0x0, 0x13666) $r d0 0x0 a0 0x1007E d1 0x0 a1 0xFA7E d2 0x3 a2 0x0 d3 0x0 a3 0xD01E d4 0x1 a4 0xDAF7 d5 0x1 a5 0xFFFFFFFC d6 0xA a6 0xF93E d7 0x0 sp 0xF93A ps 0x8 pc 0x8127EA _free+24: bclr #0x0,d0 $q % This is on a Tandy 6000 (an MC68000 machine) running Xenix 3.2. This is the first patch I've applied to the news software that has given me any trouble. My temporary solution is to run inews from patch 12. Is this an old problem that has resurfaced, or did I do something wrong? - paul -- Paul Sutcliffe, Jr. UUCP (smart): paul@devon.UUCP UUCP (dumb): ...{rutgers,ihnp4,cbosgd}!bpa!vu-vlsi!devon!paul