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Re: Athena 9.0 Linux problems with xfig and tgif

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu May 17 18:34:24 2001

Message-Id: <200105172233.SAA11533@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 May 2001 18:31:49 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 18:33:57 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> I was testing some Athena 9.0 apps and noticed that on our
> Linux-Athena 9.0 test machine, both xfig and tgif segfault- there
> might be problems with other applications too- I didn't try too
> many.

Does this happen if you run them from the initial terminal, or if you
unsetenv LD_PRELOAD in other terminals?  I think this is the "old X
programs seg fault due to xalf" bug, which will be half-fixed soonish.

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