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Re: XEmacs 19.14 vs. RH4.0 upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Hamstra)
Sun Oct 20 12:08:18 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:12:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mark Hamstra <mhamstra@sullivan.bentley.com>
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On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, BORG wrote:
> Thomas L. Baca wrote:
> ....
> > After upgrading to RH 4.0, XEmacs will not run in X mode. It works
> > fine in tty mode, but dies with a seg fault in X.
> >
> > Oh, one other thing: xemacs wanted libncurses.so.2.0, so I
> > symlinked that to libncurses.so.1.9.9e. So, now it starts up,
> > creates a window, and then promptly dies with the aforementioned seg
> > fault.
>
> I have EXACTLY the same Xemacs problem and asked for help
> on Usenet and on this list at least twice already, to
> no avail, except 2 other users reported the same problem.
> I use 3.0.3 and 5.2.18 plus kernel 2.0.18, BTW.
>
> Notice that it doesn't make any diff if you d-load
> a binary or compile it yourself, you get the same
> SIG11 and a core dump. :-< I tried so many different
> things, new and old libraries, nada. I bet you'll
> find some (all?) of the following crash with sig11
> on your box as well:
>
> 1. Xpaint, when you try to create a custom canvas
> and/or save an image bigger than 400KB.
> 2. Fvwm95-42.a
> 3. Viewres
> 4. XFM, when copying/moving big files, 1-2MB size
> binaries
> 5. don't remember, several others. On the other
> hand, all Motif and Tcl/Tk apps run fine.
Odd, I have absolutely no problems with any of these. Please excuse the
following verbosity in my attempt to help.
Name : xemacs Distribution: (none)
Version : 19.14 Vendor: (none)
Release : 1 Build Date: Sat Sep 14
11:12:27 1996
Install date: Sat Sep 14 14:36:27 1996 Build Host: localhost
Group : Applications/Editors/Emacs Source RPM:
xemacs-19.14-1.src.rpm
Size : 28255960
Summary : (none)
Name : ncurses Distribution: Red Hat Linux
Colgate
Version : 1.9.9e Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release : 2 Build Date: Wed Sep 04
15:46:35 1996
Install date: Sat Oct 05 18:17:11 1996 Build Host: porky.redhat.com
Group : Libraries Source RPM:
ncurses-1.9.9e-2.src.rpm
Size : 2066084
Summary : curses terminal control library
Name : libc Distribution: Red Hat Linux
Colgate
Version : 5.3.12 Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release : 8 Build Date: Mon Sep 02
00:43:39 1996
Install date: Sat Oct 05 18:06:04 1996 Build Host: porky.redhat.com
Group : Libraries Source RPM:
libc-5.3.12-8.src.rpm
Size : 749877
Summary : standard shared libraries for programs
Name : xpaint Distribution: Red Hat Linux
Colgate
Version : 2.4.4 Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release : 2 Build Date: Thu Aug 29
11:32:55 1996
Install date: Sat Oct 05 18:24:52 1996 Build Host: porky.redhat.com
Group : X11/Applications/Graphics Source RPM:
xpaint-2.4.4-2.src.rpm
Size : 484013
Summary : paint program for X
Name : fvwm95 Distribution: Red Hat Linux
Colgate
Version : 2.0.42a Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release : 5 Build Date: Tue Sep 10
12:22:11 1996
Install date: Sat Oct 05 17:59:31 1996 Build Host: porky.redhat.com
Group : X11/Window Managers Source RPM:
fvwm95-2.0.42a-5.src.rpm
Size : 817061
Summary : Window Manager with Windows '95 look
My viewres is not from an rpm.
Kernel is 2.0.23.
ldd /usr/bin/xemacs
libXm.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.8
libjpeg.so.5 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.5
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.0
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.0
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0
libncurses.so.2.0 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.2.0
libgdbm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0
libdb.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdb.so.2.0.0
libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5.0.6
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.3.12
/usr/lib/libncurses*
/usr/lib/libncurses.a
/usr/lib/libncurses.so -> libncurses.so.3.0
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.1.9.9e
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.2.0 -> libncurses.so.1.9.9e
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.3.0 -> libncurses.so.1.9.9e
Hope that helps.
Mark Hamstra
Bentley Systems, Inc.
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