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Re: Interface 0.1a Available
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Ian Mondragon |
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Re: Interface 0.1a Available |
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Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:27:29 -0500 |
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Tim -
Hurm...interresting list of problems...and thank you for reporting them so
quickly (and for trying out Interface!!!). So here we go...
> Installation failed. The error was as follows:
>
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 0755 \
> shared_obj/interface \
> ~harrison/GNUstep/Tools/.
> /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file
> `~harrison/GNUstep/Tools/.': No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [install-tool] Error 1
> make: *** [interface.install.tool.variables] Error 2
did ~/GNUstep/Tools/ exist? that on kind of befudles me, but i don't believe
that's actually Interface-related. sounds like a problem with your GNUstep
stuff...but anybody, please correct me if i'm wrong.
> I changed my .xinitrc to run Interface WM, and it started up without a
> hitch. Of course, I didn't add anything else, so I was stuck looking at
> my pointer. :) I ctrl-alt-backspaced out of X, added an rxvt terminal
> and wmsetbg to .xinitrc, and started up again. Bingo. Background, and
> a term.
yeah...i forgot to mention that i haven't built in any native image
image handling code. i've always used WindowMaker, so i've been using the
'wmsetbg' command to get my backgrounds up. <grin>
> So far so good. Then I figured I'd hop onto the #GNUstep channel, to
> let everyone know that it was running. In trying to run XChat, the X
> server bombed out, and I was left back at a prompt, with several
> messages on the console with coordinates. None of them seemed to be an
> error message. I tried running XChat from .xinitrc, and got the same
> results.
now i'm starting to get confused...i'm running XChat right now and having
no problems at all...
> Running Mozilla 0.9.8 gave me the same behaviour.
...and i'm running Mozilla 0.9.8 too...
> Giving up on anything that was not GNUstep specific, I started X up
> again, and ran Ludovic's Affiche.app. Affiche popped up without any
> problems at all. In fact, it seemed much faster than it did with Window
> Maker. That was a nice treat.
>
> However, it was not to last. Upon moving my rxvt terminal to a
> different part of the screen, X crashed once again.
this is even more confusing. but i do use *aterm* all the time. let me
check out what rxvt does real quick...<install port>
...nope. rxvt works just dandy for me. i'm thoroughly confused now. and
slightly upset, becuase i sure hope that this is an *isolated* case of this
many problems.
what's your setup in general? OS? version? GNUstep version? blah? perhaps
someone out there with a similar setup could help...or perhaps *this* could
help out:
- start up your normal window manager
- recompile/install interface, but this time with "gmake debug=yes"
- start up Xnest like this: "Xnest :1 &". this will start a second X
server in a window, on display :1
- in a terminal, open up interface in gdb: "gdb interface"
- start interface in the nested X server: "set args -d :1"
- run interface: "r"
now you should have Interface up & running within Xnest. open up a terminal
and try to replicate your situation there. if it crashes on you, send me the
trace (type "where" in gdb and copy/paste into an email), and the core if it
gets created.
again, thank you very much for reporting this so quickly. hopefully, more
people will do the same & we can get Interface to a stable state fairly soon.
*DEVELOPERS* - patches are welcome and encouraged! i would love to have this
become a community project...after all, a *pure* GNUstep environment would
be a beautifull thing. :-)
- ian mondragon
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