Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 02:19:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill <ankzt@maine.60north.net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup rel16 core dumps/HELP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908240209260.558-100000@maine.60north.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990823102644.jdp@polstra.com>
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err... is the "myhost" command native to freebsd? anyway i took your advice & went over my crusty old dns configs... (orriginally set up as caching forwarding) Shame on me, I didnt have a 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa db or zone in my named.conf (bind8) or any db.127.0.0 files with the appropriate PTR records... After breaking out my ORiely books the problem was rectified, thanks for the pointers. On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, John Polstra wrote: > Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Bill wrote: > > > >> after making cvsup REL16 Ive found that it core dumps when run from > >> xterm & rxvt, but works from a virt console. Heres the exact error, maybe > >> somone out there could assist? > >> > >> > >> bash# cvsup stablecvs > >> > >> > >> *** > >> *** runtime error: > >> *** Segmentation violation - possible attempt to dereference NIL > >> *** pc = 0x16a038 = Cat + 0x18 in ../src/text/Text.m3 > >> *** > >> > >> Abort trap (core dumped) > >> bash# > > > > You'd probably get the best response for this sort of report if you CC'd > > cvsup's author, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>. I've copied this to him, > > I don't know if he follows -questions. > > No I don't -- thanks for forwarding this. For future reference, the > best place to report CVSup problems is <cvsup-bugs@polstra.com>. > > I've had reports of this problem before, but I can't remember the > exact details of what the problem ended up being. However, whenever > it fails with the GUI but works in command-line mode, it always turns > out to be a problem in the user's DNS setup. Please run the following > tests on your system, and send me the results. Maybe then I can fix > CVSup to handle the situation or at least fail with a decent error > message. > > 1. Type the command > > hostname > > and tell me what it prints out. > > 2. Type the command > > myhost `hostname` > > Notice that those quotes are backticks -- the ones way up in the > northwest corner of your keyboard. Tell me what the command prints > out. The output should include one or more lines similar to this: > > myhost.example.com has address 192.168.111.222 > > Assuming it does ... > > 3. For each "has address" line, type: > > host 192.168.111.222 > > filling in the actual address from step 2 instead of "192.168.111.222". > Tell me what you get. In each case, the output should look like: > > 222.111.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer myhost.example.com > > with "myhost.example.com" replaced by whatever you got in step 1. > > My bet is that in step 2 or 3, you won't get the kind of output I said > you should get. That means your DNS setup is screwy or non-existent. > The best thing to do is to fix that, possibly with the help of your > ISP. That is probably the only fix that will work if you have a > dynamically-assigned IP address (different each time you connect to > your ISP). > > However, here's a work-around that will probably do the trick if you > have a static IP address: > > 1. Edit "/etc/host.conf" and make sure the "hosts" line comes first. > Move the line to the front of the file if necessary. > > 2. Edit "/etc/hosts". Insert a line at the front of the file: > > 192.168.111.222 myhost.example.com myhost > > replacing the first field with your real IP address, the second field > with your fully-qualified domain name (the output of the "hostname" > command), and the third field with just the first part of that. > > Then the GUI should work. > > Again, please let me know the details of what you find out so I can > fix the software to handle it better. > > John > --- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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