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From: apctrc!zjat02@uunet.uu.net (Jon A. Tankersley)
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Subject: Re: Mailtool and cmdtool dumping core
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Date: 5 Aug 89 20:30:05 GMT
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This is a known bug, and a pernicious one, if it is what I think it is.
It appears to be a bug in the shared libraries somewhere with an font
pointer going off into lala land.  Sun is beginning to get a fix for it.
We only saw it on one system with 4/110 clients.  Wondered at first if it
were a 4/110 hardware problem.

One workaround that I heard but hadn't tried, re-install the /usr
partition.  I tried a dump/restore but that didn't fix it.

-tank-
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