Re: LYNX-DEV Re[3]: Page that makes Lynx crash

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Klaus Weide wrote:

> >     Would this help? We are willing to help in any way.
> 
> Again, that is appreciated..  As is your response.

Wow!  And such a quick response!

> >     Did anyone figure out just what was crashing Lynx? Should
> 
> I didn't look too closely, but A elements within SELECT seem to
> utterly confuse it.  Of course that should be fixed in Lynx (at least to
> the extent that it doesn't crash) but that won't help with the countless
> old versions around.

Well, once again, HP-UX is being very tolerant of whatever is causing the
crash.  I can view the whole page with HP-UX with no problems. :/

On Linux it does indeed crash around the point where is tries to do the
radio boxes around line 127 of the original page.  I got a trace log in
case someone wants a look:

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GridText: Not showing link, hightext=10

GridText: Not showing link, hightext=11

GridText: Not showing link, hightext=11

A Fatal error has occurred in Lynx Ver. 2.6

Please notify your system administrator to confirm a bug, and
if confirmed, to notify the lynx-dev list.  Bug reports should
have concise descriptions of the command and/or URL which causes
the problem, the operating system name with version number, the
TCPIP implementation, and any other relevant information.

Do NOT mail the core file if one was generated.

Lynx now exiting with signal:  11

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And for comparison, the same thing on HP-UX may help to find it:

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GridText: Not showing link, hightext=10

GridText: Not showing link, hightext=11

GridText: Not showing link, hightext=11

GridText: Not showing link, hightext=15

GridText: Not showing link, hightext=19

GridText: Not showing link, hightext=__

GridText: Not showing link, hightext=__

GridText: Not showing link, hightext=__

GridText: Not showing link, hightext=__

GridText: Not showing link, hightext=__

GridText: Not showing link, hightext=__

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