[12366] in Athena Bugs
[jimf@centerline.com: Users need help]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hoffmann@MIT.EDU)
Wed Aug 10 14:44:38 1994
From: hoffmann@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 94 14:18:22 -0400
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
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To: postmaster@MIT.EDU
Subject: Users need help
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 94 13:56:06 -0400
From: Jim Frost <jimf@centerline.com>
What follows is a copy of a message I'm trying to send to one of your
system administrators.
Many of your users are complaining that xloadimage is now broken. The
following message explains how to fix the bug. If at all possible
please do this as soon as possible; I'm getting a lot of bug reports
from you guys as a result of this.
Thanks,
jim frost
jimf@centerline.com
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To: Leonard Lublin <llublin@MIT.EDU>
Cc: root@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Bug using xloadimage
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Aug 94 13:27:23 EDT."
<9408101727.AA01010@m37-312-23.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 94 13:51:03 -0400
From: Jim Frost <jimf@centerline.com>
[Note: this is Cc:'ed to root@mit.edu in the hope that the system
administrator will read this ASAP. If there's a local bug-report list
then you should send it to that list, too.]
|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
|
|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]
|
|Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
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
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