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Bug#192414: xlibs: All Xt apps fail with "Error: Couldn't find per display information"



On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 08:04:13PM +0200, Lupe Christoph wrote:
> On Thursday, 2003-05-08 at 10:41:02 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> > > lupe@antalya:~$ appres 
> > > Error: Couldn't find per display information
> > [snip]
> 
> > I cannot reproduce this problem with my 4.2.1-6 installation.
> 
> I half expected that. Do you have any hints how to debug this? I
> remember there being something that could dump the X11 protocol, but the
> name of that tool escapes me. Stracing the executable does not provide
> any hint.

You could install xlibs-dbg, and run appres in an environment where you
can trace the process's execution with GDB while using the unstripped
libraries.  See the xlibs-dbg package's extended description for more
information.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     Human beings rarely imagine a god
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     that behaves any better than a
branden@debian.org                 |     spoiled child.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     -- Robert Heinlein

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