Error message from "elm".

[Jessica Chou]

Got the following error message
at using "elm".
quote
$>elm


Segment Violation signal!

k1Bs1Cs1Ds1Gs1H
unquote.
What does it mean? And how to fix it?
Thank you.

Jess

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

possibly you mailbox is corrupt (/var/mail/)
Try the mail or mailx command to view you mails.
If this works try to delete some mails and the reuse elm.

Regards

Andrew

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

possibly you mailbox is corrupt (/var/mail/)
Try the mail or mailx command to view you mails.
If this works try to delete some mails and the reuse elm.

Regards

Andrew

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

possibly you mailbox is corrupt (/var/mail/)
Try the mail or mailx command to view you mails.
If this works try to delete some mails and the reuse elm.

Regards

[Vincente Fernandes]

check directories $HOME/.elm & $HOME/Mail and see if your Mailbox "/var/adm/username" is there. May be it is corrupt.

[Jessica Chou]

Sorry... both suggests did not help.
still got the same error message.

Jess

[Alex Glennie]

The most likely cuase for this message indicates that elm is having trouble writing to your terminal. The problem most likely has to do with the type
of terminal emulation you are using. Try switching terminals
or changing your TERM environment variable OR

DNS misconfiguration and/or it can't resolve it's own hostname.

I'd check /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf & /etc/nsswitch.conf entires.

If root = OK ; check permissions of these files as well !


other causes :
large number of messages in mailbox ?
from entry : is long > 220 characters

[Insu Kim]

It sound like that error has to do with the type of terminal emulation.
Try to change TERM variable and give it a try again!

[Jessica Chou]

Thank you all for posting your messages.
It's caused by DNS' configuation. Something wrong with it. After I stopped DNS and modified /etc/hosts. "elm" worked again.
But I don't understand why "mail" worked with
the configuration but not "elm".

Jess