Re: XWP - NOT!
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 02:35:20AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> "James R. Lunsford" wrote:
> >
> > Hello all. I installed Wordperfect 8 into /usr/local/wp8 and there's
> > no xwp file to be found anywhere on my system. The only thing that was
> > really out of the ordinary in my installation was that it didn't run
> > under X. I got some kind of error message and it ran in an xterm
> > window. Anyone have any clues as to why I can't run wordperfect on my
> > system? I saw a message about placing DISPLAY=":0.0" into my profile or
> > one of the bash files to eliminate some problems, but I don't know if
> > that will help.
> >
>
>
> Hmmm, I believe I installed wp8 to /usr/local/ too. The xwp binary is found on
> my system at "/usr/local/lib/xwp/wpbin/xwp". Lord knows why they made it so
> complicated.
Well, I installed wp8 as root into /usr/local/wp8.
Whenever I try to start xwp as anyone, it segfaults. Any ideas?
I ran strace on it and it stops either at getpid() or mprotect.
Rahsheen
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