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Re: What do these core dumps mean?



On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 06:56:40PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote:
> 
> Jon Babcock <jon@kanji.com> writes:
> 
> > Tried to run dselect a couple more times, but a seg fault occurred
> > before I got to the point of selecting any packages.
> 
> I get those too, with dselect.  They occur somewhat randomly.  I don't
> really have a clue why.  Normally, if I rerun dselect, I can get
> through (sometimes it takes more than one try).

	FWIW, I reliably get dselect core dumps if I am not running a
badly configured terminal (kermit under DOS, telnet under windows, but not
CRT under windows, etc) under dselect on any platform I've tried (PPC and
x86).

-Seth

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