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Subject: Re: iScreen seg faults
To: khera@kciLink.com (Vivek Khera)
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 17:55:34 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199505181711.NAA22256@kci.kciLink.com> from "Vivek Khera" at May 18, 95 01:11:42 pm
From: Alex Tang <altitude@umich.edu>
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On Thu May 18 13:11:42 1995: you scribbled...
> 
> I installed the iScreen package on my system (FreeBSD 2.0.950412-SNAP) using
> the FreeBSD 2.0 package.  Whenever I run it, it dies on signal 11, but
> leaves the screen and window shell processes running.  I get dropped back to
> my original shell, and those other processes are still alive.
> 
> So I fetched the screen 3.6.2 sources from a GNU site and compiled those.  I
> get the same error.
> 
> Has anyone gotten screen to run under the 950412 Snapshot?  I'm recompiling
> now with the screen debugging output (it takes a while as my freebsd
> machine is an old 386SX-25...

I found the same problem witn 2.0R.  I also found it ONLY happened when
screen was installed as setuid root.  I fixed (hacked) mine by not making
/usr/loca/bin/screen not setuid root.

It's ugly, but it works.  Does anyone REALLY know what's wrong??

thanx.
....alex...