Re: REdit and OLC crashes

From: George (greerga@DRAGON.HAM.MUOHIO.EDU)
Date: 08/11/97


On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Dark Shadow wrote:

>All of the sudden, OLC (Oasis) has started to crash on me.  It has been
>working fine for nearly two weeks, I have made no changes to the code, yet
>every time someone uses redit and then types "y" to the question "Save room
>internally" the MUD crashes.  Any idea what can be causing this?  I look

Never heard of any 'redit' bug reports, send a bug report. :)

>and look but I don't see a core file in the /bin where circle resides or
>any other directory (I'm running linux).  Is there any way besides using
>gdb and a core file to locate what could be causing the problem?

It'll probably be in lib/ as someone whose name I forgot pointed out.  I
use the autogdb package from the FTP site and it works a whole lot better.

There is also the possibility that you aren't allowed to make core files.
Check 'ulimit -c'.

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