Xref: utzoo comp.sys.sgi:1575 gnu.emacs:1229 comp.emacs:6480 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!usc!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!zardoz!tgate!ka3ovk!drilex!axiom!linus!cvbnet2!jeremy From: jeremy@lana.prime.com (Jeremy Nussbaum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,gnu.emacs,comp.emacs Subject: Re: gnu emacs 18.54, gnus3.12, gethostbyname Message-ID: Date: 14 Jul 89 03:30:12 GMT References: Sender: postnews@cvbnet2.UUCP Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi Distribution: comp Organization: Prime Computer, Bedford, Ma. Lines: 35 In-reply-to: jeremy@lana.prime.com's message of 13 Jul 89 20:08:34 GMT In article jeremy@lana.prime.com (Jeremy Nussbaum) writes: Summary: gethostbyname problem under gnuemacs 18.53/4 with irix 3.1 Date: 13 Jul 89 20:08:34 GMT Lines: 18 Xref: cvbnet2 comp.sys.sgi:1051 gnu.emacs:109 comp.emacs:5879 I just bought up gnu emacs 18.54 (and 18.53) on an sgi 4d workstation under release 3.1 of the sgi os. I had been using 18.51, compiled on an earlier release of the os. Under 18.51, gnus started up w/o trouble. Now, as soon as it tries to connect to the nntp server it gets a segmentation violation. The traceback shows index.index called by res_init.res_init called by res_search called by _gethostbyname_named called by gethostbyname called by Fopen_network_stream. I have verified that I am still calling gethostbyname with the same valid hostname, and that a small program can make the call successfully. I don't actually have the named up and running. Any ideas on what might be causing the segmentation violation, and what I might do to get around the problem? Thanks in advance, -- Jeremy Nussbaum (jeremy@jeremy.prime.com, ...!harvard!prmcad!jeremy) OK, I worked on it some more, and finally figured out that it is the programmers workbench library that is causing the problem. I haven't yet ascertained which routine is being redefined, but I have "successfully" gotten a three line program to dump core consistenly simply by linking in the libPW library. Followups to comp.sys.sgi. -- Jeremy Nussbaum jeremy@jeremy.prime.com, ...!harvard!prmcad!jeremy Prime Computer 2 Crosby Drive MS 16-2 Bedford, Ma. 01730 (617)275-1800 x6745