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Re: sgi 8.1: "add xess ; xess" => Segmentation fault
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorothy Bowe)
Tue May 27 16:24:40 1997
To: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, dot@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 16:24:32 EDT
From: Dorothy Bowe <dot@MIT.EDU>
>> xess doens't seem to work on 8.1 SGI's.
>
>FYI: Neither backing store nor 24 bit default visuals seem to be
>responsible for this one.
>
>(I ran it on two 8.1 SGI's, one both with and without the X server
>changes and it always failed as described. I ran it on an 8.0 SGI
>(mwhitson's, which has at least the 24-bit stuff enabled anyway) and
>it worked fine.)
>
We can probably get away with just ignorning this one, as we're
scheduled to do a minor upgrade to Xess 3.1 anyway, and 3.1 seems to
work fine. We can just move up the upgrade schedule...
However, maybe someone can explain to me what changed in 8.1 so that the
following is true:
On bledsoe, 8.1 SGI, I get the following:
athena% setenv DISPLAY bledsoe:0
athena% add xess
athena% xess
Error: Can't Open Display
This is also true when I xhost +bledsoe on dorian (an 8.0 SGI) and try
to display from 8.1 to 8.0. Both scenerios work when running xess on an
8.0 SGI. Xess under 8.1 does try to run with DISPLAY=:0, but core
dumps.
Dot
