Re: [tpop3d-discuss] Segmentation fault

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:13:59PM +0200, Jens Kutilek wrote:
> I tried to install tpop3d on Debian Linux / PowerPC. At first it didn't 
> run at all, but it was better after I applied the two changes to main.c 
> that were posted here last month.
> But though, tpop3d causes a segmentation fault:
> # tpop3d -d -v
> listener_new: gethostbyaddr(): cannot resolve name
> Segmentation fault
> 
> The call gethostbyaddr() exists, even on PowerPC ;-) But I think that 
> is only a warning and not related to the segfault, right?
> Any ideas? What can I do to give more information about the crash? I 
> don't know very much about programming & debugging.
> 
> By the way, the lines I changed in main.c were:
> 487    char *configfile = "/etc/tpop3d.conf";
> 488    int na, c;
> 494    while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, optstring)) != -1) {
> 
> Hope I did it right ...

There were a couple of other bug fixes which I will
package up into a new release; this could be a
manifestation of the same problem. I will send an email to
the list when this is done, and hopefully that will
resolve it.

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