[news.software.anu-news] v5.8a bug

JOHNSON@NORTHEASTERN.EDU (I am only an egg.) (08/04/89)

     Here's an interesting one.  My news feed source set me a bunch of
the following;
     

JOHNSON@NORTHEASTERN.EDU (I am only an egg.) (08/04/89)

[This article from the mailing list had some problems getting into the
 newsgroup because of the #! rnews lines contained in the text.  I have
 modified the gateway software to put a > in front of lines like this that
 might confuse NEWS.  I am reposting this to the newsgroup.  Sorry for the
 problems. Bob Sloane <sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>]

     Here's an interesting one.  My news feed source set me a bunch of
the following;
     
>#! rnews unknown
     
>#! rnews unknown
     
>#! rnews unknown
     
>#! rnews unknown
     
>#! rnews unknown
     
>#! rnews unknown
     
Then there was a news article followed by more of the above.
     
     NEWS tried valiantly to load this, I used ADD BATCH/CREGRP/DELETE.
It died with the following error;
     
%SYSTEM-F-RADRMOD, reserved addressing fault at PC=0004F632, PSL=03C00004
     
  Improperly handled condition, image exit forced.
     
	Signal arguments	      Stack contents
     
	Number = 00000003		 00160A28
	Name   = 0000044C		 00000400
		 0004F632		 0004F415
		 03C00004		 00000000
					 2DFC0000
					 7FF18FE8
					 7FF18FAC
					 0004BEFA
					 00000001
					 00016277
     
	Register dump
     
	R0 = 00158214  R1 = 00172A00  R2 = 00000001  R3 = 00016277
	R4 = 7FF196C5  R5 = 00016889  R6 = 00000001  R7 = 00049224
	R8 = 00010E20  R9 = 0001B2DC  R10= 00056658  R11= 00000001
	AP = 7FF18F14  FP = 7FF18ED4  SP = 7FF18F48  PC = 0004F632
	PSL= 03C00004
     
     
This is of course a most ungracious way to end one's existance.
     
Chris Johnson
ANU-NEWSer
Northeastern University