[3760] in testers
Re: More 8.2 and exmh problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Mon Jul 13 08:18:37 1998
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Jul 1998 05:02:17 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 08:18:02 EDT
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Thanks. That does work. I did change the alternate editor to "emacs"
and I can use it now. The drawback is substantial (I liked being able to
go back and read mail while I was working on a reply.), but I can live
with if for now. This has been a rough release for me.
I am stil getting a lot of:
08:02 BgRegister X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization); command ignored
08:02 BgRegister X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization); command ignored
08:02 BgRegister X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization); command ignored
08:03 BgRegister X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization); command ignored
08:03 exmh-bg cannot rendez-vous with UI - exiting.
08:03 Usually this is because Tk send is not working.
08:03 Check the notes under Frequently Asked Questions #4a and #4b.
08:03 You can find this under the Help menu.
Is that related to this problem?
Roger
> <daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Roger A. Roach) writes:
> > I tried to use the alternate editor (emacs) and got:
> >
> > Error in script: X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization);
> > command ignored
> > while executing
> > "send $exmh [list Edit_Ident [winfo name .]]"
> > (file "/mit/sipb/arch/sun4x_56/bin/exmh-async" line 17)
>
>
> Short answer: exmh relied on being able to use Tk "send" to
> know when the alternate editor was done. This has never worked
> SGIs, and apparently won't work on 8.2 Suns.
>
> To still be able to use the alternate editor, your least worst
> option is to change the "Preference" section on "Editors", and
> tell exmh that the second editor is merely "emacs". (No ampersand.)
> This has some drawbacks, mentioned below.
>
>
> Long answer:
>
> I may need some help on this one. Does anyone have xauth clue?
>
> Exmh tries to use Tk's "send" command to launch background tasks
> that report back to the main application when they finish.
> Unfortunately, send has never worked on the SGIs, and now it
> appears that it won't work on 8.2 Suns either. Therefore, exmh's
> interactions with external editors it launches are limited.
>
>
> My options for dealing with this are:
>
> 1) Launch the user's editor as a background process, in which
> case control never returns to the exmh application.
>
> This is suboptimal, because it's not obvious how to send your
> mail once you finish editing it.
>
> 2) Launch the editor, and have exmh wait for the editor to
> finish. This has the advantage that control will return to
> exmh when the editor finishes, but has the disadvantage that
> exmh will freeze up (not respond to events) until that time.
>
> This isn't great, but I could live with it.
>
> 3) Find out what happened with xauth authentication. Try to
> fix it, at least on Suns. Be nice if it could be made to
> work on SGIs too.
>
> I don't have knowledge of how to begin a solution like this.
>
>
> I'd love to do #3, but think I'll have to do #2.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> -Jacob Morzinski
