[12363] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7G: xloadimage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard Lublin)
Wed Aug 10 13:57:58 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 13:57:53 EDT
From: Leonard Lublin <llublin@MIT.EDU>
System name: m37-312-23
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7G
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
|I am using a Sun Sparc Classic (m37-312-23), and xloadimage
|does not seem to work. Here is what I do
|
| athena% add graphics
| athena% xloadimage /mit/graphics/images/xpix/stars.dmp.Z
What's wrong:
|Here is the error I get.
|
| An internal error (SEGV) has occurred. If you would like to file a bug
| report, please send email to jimf@saber.com or ..!uunet!saber!jimf
| with a description of how you triggered the bug, the output of xloadimage
| before the failure, and the following information:
|
| Xloadimage Version 3.01
| [No information on server; error occurred before connection]
What should have happened:
| I should have got some nice stars to be my background screen.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
| I did as the error message said. I mailed jimf@saber.com. This was
| his reply.
>> This is a bug. Apparently you guys at MIT have a new Solaris 2.3
>> machine, or recently upgraded one or more machines to Solaris 2.3,
>> because I have received about a dozen bug reports in the last day or
>> two.
>>
>> To fix this problem you need to upgrade xloadimage to the current
>> version. The current version is 4.1 and is available from ftp.x.org
>> /R5contrib/xloadimage.4.1.tar (it has a .gz extension, but this may be
>> omitted and the file will be uncompressed before transmission).
>>
>> Unpack xloadimage, make sure that a working "cc" is in your path, and
>> simply type "make". DO NOT USE xmkmf TO PROCESS THE IMAKEFILE! The
>> build process will ask a few simple questions. Most likely you can
>> take the default answer to all of the questions. Xloadimage should
>> build itself.
>>
>> I'm sorry for the inconvenience. FYI the bug is that the
>> implementation of strstr() included in older xloadimage distributions
>> has a bug in it which is triggered during initialization on Solaris
>> 2.3. This is new behavior from Solaris 2.2.
>>
>> jim frost
>> jimf@centerline.com
