Re: Pine 4.05

[Juhani Sivusalo <jasivu@na.netppl.fi>]

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Mario Becroft wrote:

MB> I have noticed a problem with Pine 4.05 - sometimes, it freezes entirely,
MB> and nothing except kill -9 will make it come out of it. For example, I
MB> just received an email which I tried to save into a folder. I pressed S
MB> for save, entered the name and pressed return. Then the usual message
MB> "Busy" with the twirling bar (|/-\|/ etc.) appeared, but it just kept on
MB> going... and going, until after about 1 minute I tried kill. But nothing
MB> happened. Only kill -9 would make Pine exit from it's hung state. But it
MB> had not completely hung, the little bar was still twirling all that time.
MB> This problem has happened twice in the past couple of days since I
MB> installed Pine 4.05.
MB> Any ideas?

Hmmm... I can't say anything right away... 
In my system pine (3.96 and 4.05) hangs allmost certainly if I start
pppd from console _after_ Pine. It did happen with earlier versions
too so I don't know if this is same bug.

Has anyone else seen anything like this before?

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