From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Oct 29 11:41:53 1998 Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:41:53 -0500 (EST) From: Mail System Internal Data Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA X-IMAP: 0909679313 0000000000 Status: RO This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values. From rsw@Glue.umd.edu Wed Oct 7 09:35:56 1998 -0500 Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: Received: from geog1.umd.edu (geog1.umd.edu [129.2.25.42]) by neelix.umd.edu (8.9.0.Beta6/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA03491; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:35:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from geog1.umd.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by geog1.umd.edu (8.9.0.Beta6/8.9.0.Beta6) with SMTP id JAA02887; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:35:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (andie@localhost) by geog1.umd.edu (8.9.0.Beta6/8.9.0.Beta6) with SMTP id JAA02882; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:35:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: geog1.umd.edu: andie owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:35:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Diane J. Donaldson" X-Sender: andie@geog1.umd.edu To: "Randall S. Winchester" cc: "Joseph M. Sackett" Subject: Arcview problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Randall, If you either tap or gtap arc and then run arcview on a 2.6 workstation, you get: ------------------- TRACEBACK ------------------------- Module "X " Message 1: file "err.c " line 453 Module "X " Message 0: file "x.c " line 178 Module "Font " Message -1: file "./xfont.c " line 204 Module "Font " Message -1: file "./xfont.c " line 241 Module "Font " Message 0: file "font.c " line 113 Module "Err " Message -1: file "err.c " line 1489 ------------------------------------------------------- ERROR X Windows error: "BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)" Request: 18. while X Windows IO error. Initializing font "SourceCode (Small)" EXITING cannot recover from error This does not happen under 2.5, although it did before we added this to the tap: /local/twig/arcit which consists of: #!/bin/sh if [ -f /usr/dt/bin/dttypes ] ; then /usr/dt/bin/dttypes -w rec_name null -db ACTION fi It used to fix 2.6 as well, but no more. We only have the problem under fvwm2, and if you run netscape first, it works ok. Or if you are sitting at a 2.6 workstation and rlogin to a 2.5 workstation, gtap arc and run arcview there, that also fixes it to run on 2.6. We would love to get this problem fixed, it has been dogging us for months. I'm sure Joe will add any details that I've missed, since he certainly beat his head against it quite a bit. djd