ports/135434: avoiding most of the crashing problem on mail/alpine on FreeBSD 6.x

[Mohacsi Janos]

>Number:         135434
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       avoiding most of the crashing problem on mail/alpine on FreeBSD 6.x
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 10 09:00:10 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mohacsi Janos
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
NIIF
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mignon.ki.iif.hu 6.4-STABLE FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE #16: Fri May 22 11:36:59 CEST 2009 root at mignon.ki.iif.hu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MIGNON2 i386


	
>Description:
	alpine is crashing on FreeBSD 6.x due to threading implementation 
        difference..
>How-To-Repeat:
	try alpine on FreeBSD 6.x - open a large folder (> 60000 messages)
>Fix:
	
Copy from message thread from alpine-info mailing list:

"
Threads on FreeBSD 6.x used KSE (M:N threads) and threads on FreeBSD 7.x are
1:1.  What does that mean for you you may ask.  It means that some issues
were fixed by moving to the simpler 1:1 threads that now exist in 7.x.  I
recommend, if you have permission, that you build Alpine from ports with the
thread option disabled:

1. cd /usr/ports/mail/alpine && make config
2. Set THREADS to off in the menu.
3. make clean
4. make deinstall install clean

Sean
-- 
scf at FreeBSD.org

"

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