qac@occrsh.ATT.COM (Quentin_Conner) (07/19/89)
Okay, this is a strange one. What I want to know is if anyone else has seen anything similar. I was installing news 2.11B on my 386 box which runs SCO Xenix 2.1.1. When trying to run inews, I got a segmentation violation (memory fault 11). The weird part is that it happens upon returning from pathinit() to main(). I looked at it with sdb adn did a stack trace just before returning to main() and it showed pathinit() was still there. Anyway, I isolated the cause of the problem to a call to uname() in pathinit.c. The call was successful, and did indeed return the system's name as expected. But for some strange reason calling it makes core dump when returning from pathinit. I have "adjusted" the source so it won't call uname() but now I can't sleep at night :-). I guess it is just a corrupted library... Any similar experiences? Quentin Conner -------------- qac@occrsh.att.com att!occrsh!qac