>Number:         6727
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       gnuclient does nothing.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan  4 09:50:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Michael C. Richardson
>Organization:
   :!mcr!:            |  Network and security consulting/contract programming
   Michael Richardson |         Firewalls, TCP/IP and Unix administration
 Personal: http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/People/Michael_Richardson/Bio.html
 Corporate: http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/SSW/
	ON HUMILITY: To err is human, to moo bovine.
>Release:        NetBSD-current Dec. 1
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD istari.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca 1.3I NetBSD 1.3I (SSW) #7: Sun Nov 22 13:24:25 EST 1998 mcr@istari.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca:/j/netbsd/obj/SSW i386
Architecture: i386

>Description:
	Both "gnuclient file" and "gnuclient -nw" do "nothing"

>How-To-Repeat:

	Install ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.3.2/i386/editors/xemacs-20.4.tgz
	Start up xemacs. Do M-x gnuserv-start
	Run "gnuclient  somefile"
	No windows open, and gnuclient does not wait.

	Ktrace output:

 15492 gnuclient RET   read 2004/0x7d4
 15492 gnuclient CALL  break(0xdffc)
 15492 gnuclient RET   break 0
 15492 gnuclient CALL  break(0xeffc)
 15492 gnuclient RET   break 0
 15492 gnuclient CALL  read(0x4,0xa000,0x2000)
 15492 gnuclient GIO   fd 4 read 0 bytes
       ""
 15492 gnuclient RET   read 0
 15492 gnuclient CALL  close(0x4)
 15492 gnuclient RET   close 0
 15492 gnuclient CALL  write(0x3,0xefbfc148,0xb)
 15492 gnuclient GIO   fd 3 wrote 11 bytes
       "GNU-SECURE
       "
 15492 gnuclient RET   write 11/0xb
 15492 gnuclient CALL  write(0x3,0x1d88,0x1b)
 15492 gnuclient GIO   fd 3 wrote 27 bytes
       "(gnuserv-eval '(emacs-pid))"
 15492 gnuclient RET   write 27/0x1b
 15492 gnuclient CALL  write(0x3,0x1d32,0x1)
 15492 gnuclient PSIG  SIGPIPE SIG_DFL

>Fix:
	Will compile/install from pkgsrc to see if problem persists, but must
	find more disk space first.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: