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From: ade@clark.UUCP (Adrian Miranda)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: problems with rn
Keywords: rn, SIGSEGV
Message-ID: <172@clark.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 90 08:38:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.
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I suddenly started having problems with rn today.  After some time the
problems just as suddenly went away.  It would die with a message like:

Caught a SIGSEGV-.newsrc restored
abort-core dumped.

or something about rn: out of memory.  It always occured at about the
same place when reading the news.  I would be at the newsrgroup selection
level, usually at comp.sys.atari.st, and then it would go to pieces.
I am presently using patch level 40, but when I compiled patch level
44, it had the same problem.

Even when in printed "core dumped" it never dumped core.  My .newsrc is not
especially large, around 6 K, with about 298 lines.  As I say, after fighting
with it for several hours, the problem suddenly went away.  However when I 
tried an old copy of my .newsrc, the problem showed up again.  I am at a
complete loss as to what is going wrong.  I suspect that some internal
buffer is overflowing, but I'm just guessing.

Please send mail, I'm sure this is probably something trivial.

Adrian Miranda
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