[248] in im locker bugs
Re: [Fwd: Your OLC question about "dialup"]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Wang)
Wed Apr 6 11:49:29 2005
From: Jonathan Wang <jtwang@MIT.EDU>
To: Nicoli M Ames <nmames@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-im@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <1112802167.9821.7.camel@mandrey.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:49:09 -0400
Hi Nici,
Unfortunately we are not supporting RHEL 4 at this time. It is quite
likely that the change to Xorg broke things.
You can try building from source or installing a binary package for
Fedora Core 3. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
Jonathan
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 11:42 -0400, Nicoli M Ames wrote:
> Hi, I have a little problem with the athena GAIM client (see
> below)....
>
> Thanks,
> Nici
>
>
> -----Forwarded Message-----
> From: astronut@MIT.EDU
> To: Nicoli M Ames <nmames@MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Your OLC question about "dialup"
> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:26:19 -0400
>
> --------
>
> Hello, and thank you for using OLC! You asked:
>
> >> I'm sure I put this in the wrong category... but anyway.
> >>
> >> I'm having trouble running GAIM (from the IM locker) over dialup now that
> >> i'm using RHEL 4 instead of RHEL 3. I presume this is because RedHat has
> >> migrated to Xorg from XFree86 as the X server. The error message reported
> >> was:
> >>
> >> The program 'gaim' received an X Window System error.
> >> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> >> The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
> >> (Details: serial 290 error_code 3 request_code 2 minor_code 0)
> >> (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
> >> that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
> >> To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
> >> option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
> >> backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
>
> Unfortunately, this is currently an a rather nebulous unsupported area. Gaim
> is maintained by SIPB, not IS&T, so questions regarding Gaim should be
> directed to bug-im@mit.edu. RHEL 4 at MIT is still in the pre-release stage,
> but you may have some luck directing questions to unix-linux-help@mit.edu,
> although they are officially still supporting RHEL 3. Another option would
> be to install Gaim on your machine, rather than trying to run it over dialup.
>
> If you have any additional questions, please let us know! Otherwise, you
> can close this question by typing "olc done" at an Athena prompt, or by
> telling us via email. If we do not hear from you in one week, we will
> assume that you are finished and remove this case from our queue.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erica Peterson, OLC
