Re: FVWM: SunOS 4.1.4 and 2.0.44 NO JOY

From: Charles Hines <chuck_hines_at_VNET.IBM.COM>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:36:51 -0500

>>>>> "TD" == Timothy Demarest <demarest_at_arraycomm.com> writes:

TD> I just compiled 2.0.44, and after some complaints about stdarg.h not being
TD> found, I got things compiled. However, when fvwm2 starts up, I just get a
TD> grey background. The popup menus "pop up," but I cannot start ANY apps.
TD> The only item that does work from the pop up is exit.

TD> I also tried logging in and starting fvwm2 up manually. After I type
TD> 'fvwmw &', my xterm goes blank (no text) and the only thing I can do is
TD> choose exit from the pop up menu. I tried with and without my current
TD> .fvwm2rc.

TD> Moving back to 2.0.43 works fine. I even recompiled 2.0.43 one the exact
TD> machine that I compiled 2.0.44 on, and 2.0.43 still works.

TD> I will send in a debug output, but was just wondering if anyone else
TD> running SunOS 4.1.4 (Sparc 20) and gcc 2.7.2 had similar problems.

I do believe that someone else had this problem also, yes, although I
don't recall who right now.

I just tried to reproduce this with my local development version of
fvwm (right now it's essentially just 2.0.44 plus a couple of the
patches posted to the mailing lists) on a SunOS 4.1.3 machine that I
have access to (compiled using acc, with "the works" defined in
Fvwm.tmpl, and displaying to xmx version 2pl6 alpha since I can't sit
at the console right now) and it worked fine for me.

So I tried 2.0.44 itself, to see if it was the patches that made a
difference. It too worked fine.

So, try compiling fvwm w/ -g to put the debug info in there, then run
it under a debugger, if you can, and try to get a traceback of where
it's locking up please. Perhaps you could turn on the FVWM_DEBUG_MSGS
too (configure.h at bottom).

Chuck

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Received on Fri Jan 17 1997 - 09:40:41 GMT

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