Re: comp.periphs.printers crashing tin - anyone else see this?

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:39:23PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> I'm subscribed to about 60 newsgroups and I've been using tin for years.
> 
> I'm now seeing a rather difficult problem in that whenever I try and
> go into the comp.periphs.printers newgroup tin crashes spectacularly
> and screws up my terminal window as well such that I can't capture any
> of what it outputs when it crashes (cut and past don't work, nothing
> gets sent to stdout or stderr).
> 
> What I see on the screen after it has crashed is a long list of
> libraries (with no newlines) and, at the end "..... [stack]   Aborted"
> 
> Help!!  What can I do?
> 
> I 'c'aught up comp.periphs.printers yesterday and that stopped it dying
> as I went past but it's doing it again today.

what tin version do you use? recompile with -g in $CFLAGS (src/Makefile)
and start tin from within a debugger (gdb) and do a stacktrace (bt).

urs
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