[Alpine-info] "Alarm clock" -- crashing

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Mike Miller wrote:


> I am using Alpine 2.00 on Solaris in an rxvt window.  This weird crash has 

> happened to me twice in the past 10 minutes or so.  I don't think there was 

> any obvious commonality between the two events.

>

> What happened -- Alpine suddenly died.  Completely gone, but all of the text 

> was still on the screen.  The UNIX command prompt (tcsh in this case) 

> appeared within all that text and on the line just above the command prompt 

> was this:

>

> Alarm clock

>

> Just like that.  That is all.  What does that mean?  It seems like Alpine is 

> timing out, but it is not doing it gracefully!  In fact, the rxvt window is 

> left in a dysfunctional state where the mouse doesn't work on the scroll bar 

> and I have to type "reset" on the command line to return to full 

> functionality.  Use of "reset" clears the screen, so the text is gone, and 

> before using reset I cannot use the mouse to copy the text.

>

> I hope someone will have a clue about this strange "Alarm clock" issue.


Does it behave the same when you do a

 	kill -ALRM <pid>

to it ? I suspect something is sending a SIGALRM to your alpine. I tested 
it here on Linux and I see alpine behaving as you describe when I send a 
SIGALRM.

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