witr@rwwa.COM (Robert W. Withrow) (03/28/91)
I am having two problems with Xrn 6-14, X386 (T. Roell's X for 386s), and SVR4 (Intel). If anyone can help, please send mail... 1) I get a Signal 11 (SEGV) sometime after clicking the ``send'' button when I post an article with the ``xrn.editorCommand'' resource set to execute my favorite editor. I have XRN configured to use INEWS to post articles. The article gets posted correctly. I get the ``article posted'' notifier also. By groping around with the debugger I discovered that this seems to be related to receiving the SIGCHLD signal from the completing INEWS command. If I `c' rather than `C' from that signal (using SDB, thus suppressing that signal from XRN's point of view) everything works correctly: I *don't* get the SEGV. I noticed that the INEWS is exec'd from code executed by the signal handler routine for the SIGCHLD signal received by the just completed editor command. Could this be causing the problem? 2) If I instead use the builtin editor dialog (instead of using the ``xrn.editorCommand'' resource) XRN seems to get into a loop causing the server to gobble memory until it croaks. This also happens after clicking the send button (at the bottom of the editor dialog). I get the ``article'' posted notifier for this also. I havn't yet figured out where it is getting into this state. -- --- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA 01907 USA Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430, Net: witr@rwwa.COM