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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: If you run "mail" in a window with *exactly* 4 lines, and if you do have atleast 1 email in your inbox, mail will crash: [jdhunt@huntj:jdhunt> mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. "/var/spool/mail/jdhunt": 1 message 1 unread Floating point exception [jdhunt@huntj:jdhunt> echo $? 136 [jdhunt@huntj:jdhunt> If your terminal window (xterm, aterm, Eterm) has 3 lines, or 5 lines, the problem does not occur. If your window has > 4 lines, setting "LINES=4" does not reproduce the problem. The number of columns the window has is not relevant. I am able to reproduce this problem consistently on 2 different RH7.3 boxes running the same version of mail. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.ensure you have some email in /var/spool/mail/<user> 2.resize terminal emulator window to *exactly* 4 lines 3.run, "mail". Actual Results: mail command crashed with a floating point exception. Expected Results: mail should have produced a summary line, 1 for each email in my inbox, followed by a command prompt (line beginning with '& '). Additional info:
James here again. Fedora Core 2 still has this problem. "rpm -q mailx" returns, "mailx-8.1.1-32". If it is any help, the Debian folk fixed this problem back in 2002. Here's the bug report (#170784) I raised with them: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=170784&archive=yes Thanks in advance, James.
Thank you for your notice. The problem was fixed. IV
Solved with -40.