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Date:      Tue, 04 Aug 1998 07:05:24 -0600
From:      "Chris D. Faehl" <cfaehl@cs.unm.edu>
To:        Gerald Ehritz <ehritz@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pine 3.96 locks 3.0-980621 /3.0-980725 completely 
Message-ID:  <E0z3gmR-0004Yd-00@enterprise.cs.unm.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Aug 1998 13:50:16 %2B0200." <199808041150.NAA15805@arcturus.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> 

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> Hi to all who contributed to this,
> 
> I made a test with FreeBSD 3.0-19980725 today, and both versions of pine 3.96 and 4.02 locks up the pc!
> 
> Here is the history:
> 
> 1.) We used a FreeBSD 2.2 box for modem login since 2 years. In June i upgraded to 3.0 snap and everything works except pine locks up the pc.
> 
> 2.) We allways had NFS mounted mail- and user- dirs! ( and it worked). No changes on the server (SunOS 4.1.3_U1).
> 
> 3.) All versions of pine (2.2.6 code, 3.0 code, version 3.96, 4.0 and 4.02) kill the machine IF i write out an attachment ( may be > 100k size) to the home dir (NFS mounted), works if write it to /tmp! 
> 
> 4.) Pine works IF i only read and write mails (mail NFS mounted)!
> 
> 
> Will pine ever work across NFS ?
> If not we have to switch to another mail reader! 
> 
> I am asking me, why it had worked on an old FreeBSD (2.2) system.
> 
> Any ideas?

Sure. If I recall, the consensus was, "NFS client bugs in -current".
So, the problem has been recognized (not sure if it's been duplicated
widely, though). Likely it'll get fixed.

My Really Big Idea is: FreeBSD 3.0 is in situ. You appear to be treating it 
like it's a production system. Perhaps you really want to be running -stable.

> 
> Gerald
> 
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