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

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:49:40PM +0200, Urs Janßen wrote:
> 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).
> 
Yes, sorry I should have said, it was verion 1.8.3.  As you can see I
have built 1.9.3 and that works OK so something between 1.8.3 and
1.9.3 has fixed the problem.

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Chris Green