[13759] in Athena Bugs
Re: Motif 1.2 core dumps instead of pasting to itself.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Freedman)
Thu Aug 17 20:45:43 1995
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:45:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew Freedman <mattf@cac.washington.edu>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU, brlewis@MIT.EDU, nut-lib@MIT.EDU,
willow-dev@cac.washington.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.92.950817141004.1423D-100000@elvis.cac.washington.edu>
On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Matthew Freedman wrote:
> I used my own Motif 1.1 binary for Decstation, so this would only effect
> people who took the Solaris binary. I am working on getting an account on
> a Solaris machine here, but have not been able to try it yet.
Ok, I got an account on a Solaris machine, /etc/motd says:
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.4 Generic July 1994
Sounds old, is it?
I installed the willow.solaris.tar.Z from ftp.cac.washington.edu.
Runs and searches ok, pasting into a search-text field causes a core dump.
There is no /usr/lib/X11 at all, let alone /usr/lib/X11/nls. Some X stuff
appears to be in /usr/openwin/lib/X11, but no nls there either.
I first created an empty nls directory in my home directory, and did a
setenv XNLSPATH to it, but it still crashes. I seem to recall an empty nls
fixing this problem previously on Ultrix, but I could be wrong.
Next I copied elvis' (Ultrix) /usr/lib/X11/nls to my home directory, and
it no longer core-dumps.
I am a bit surprised we have not gotten any queries about this. Either
people are not pasting on Solaris, or most people already have an
installation with an nls directory. Is anybody on this list familiar
enough with Suns and X to explain under what circumstances a Sun would or
would not be likely to have this directory installed and recognized by X
apps? Newer versions of Solaris are perhaps R5 (or 6?) and would work,
older ones are R4 and croak?
-- Matt
