Re: Fvwm2 problems with xlib6g

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

Brian White wrote:
> 
> > > As soon as I tried to upgrade to xlib6g, then fvwm2 would segfault on startup.
> > > Looking at it with strace seemed to indicate that because of xlib6g it was
> > > trying to execute using the libc6 (not libc5) library, and thus died.
> > >
> > > Has anybody else had this problem?
> > 
> > I don't know if it's due to a segfault, but I can attest that my copy of
> > fvwm2 has also stopped working since I upgraded to xlib6g.
> 
> Try just typing "fvwm2" from the command line.  Mine segfaulted before it
> ever tried to do anything with the display.

Yup, but the perl script posted to the list a few days ago worked to
fix it. I also found that  the fvwm2 support files had to be fixed
also (all files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2).

Tim

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