[Alpine-info] Re: alpine hangs after lynx URL view

[Mike Miller]

I wrote something last year about a problem with lynx for URLs in Alpine 
1.10.  I think it continued to be a problem in 2.00.  I stopped using 
Solaris and Lynx and mostly now use Linux and Firefox, but someone just 
wrote to me with information that might help developers.  See below.

Mike

Cc: Baranyai Pal


Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 23:31:49 +0200 (MEST)
From: Baranyai Pal
To: mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu
Subject: Solaris problems continue with Alpine 2.00

Hi,

I read your post from 2008 on Alpine-info list.
We have faced with the same lynx (#3) problem on Sparc Solaris 8.
and Alpine 2.00. Simple debugging with truss showed that alpine was
looping in lwp_cond_wait() calls forever. Than I rebuilt the whole
distribution with "--without-pthread" option.

Now the new binary works perfectly with lynx, so the cause is probably
related to some multi-thread syncronization issue. Currenlty I do not
have time to debug deeper.

Regards,
Pal Baranyai



On Wed, 14 May 2008, Mike Miller wrote:


> I am using alpine 1.10(962) on Solaris 8 (SPARC) in an rxvt window with the 

> following options:

>

> alpine -z -feature-list=no-use-subshell-for-suspend -color-style=force-ansi-8color -url-viewers=/usr/local/bin/lynx

>

> This works great in Pine 4.60 -- I view a URL then pop straight back 

> into Pine.  When I tried this in Alpine, lynx came up and worked fine, 

> but when I killed lynx, I was left with my cursor sitting under the last 

> command line (where I had entered the alias for alpine) in a sort of 

> unresponsive dead zone where Ctrl-c or Ctrl-z would just display 

> characters on the screen:

>

> mbmiller at taxa:~> alpine_alias

>

> fg

> ^C

> ^Z

> ^Z^Z

> ^C^C

>

> See what I mean?  So I had to open another window and kill alpine. 

> This time I waited more than 30 minutes just because I wanted to see if 

> it would come back on its own, but it never did.

>

> Mike