Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 09:18:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ashley <ashley@labyrinth.net.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bus error! Message-ID: <19980327091835.58912@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980327010521.237C-100000@quasar.org.au>; from Ashley on Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 01:09:22AM %2B1100 References: <19980326195055.01704@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980327010521.237C-100000@quasar.org.au>
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On Fri, 27 March 1998 at 1:09:22 +1100, Ashley wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> Mar 21 03:33:36 quasar /kernel: pid 19809 (communicator-4.0), uid 1000: >>>> exited on signal 10 (core dumped) >>>> >>>> and then everytime after that when i tried to run enlightenment i get >>>> this: >>>> >>>> Mar 21 03:53:28 quasar /kernel: pid 174 (enlightenment), uid 1000: exited >>>> on signal 10 (core dumped) >>> >>> Hm... >>> >>>> this was not happening before the Netscape signal 10 above. :( >>>> >>>> any help appreciated :) >>> >>> Try reinstalling X from scratch, I guess: >>> >>> rm -rf /usr/X11R6 >> >> Sorry, I disagree strongly with this approach. enlightenment isn't X, >> and there's no reason to believe that the problem is with X. On the >> other hand, I *have* heard of problems with enlightenment, and that's >> what the messages are saying. >> >> I'd suggest backing out enlightenment and trying a different window >> manager to see if the problems still occur. > > i have installed X from scratch and the problem still persists. As I said, that doesn't surprise me. In general, reinstallation is a last way out. Microsoft has made the approach popular, since they don't have any other way of handling many problems. On FreeBSD, about the only reason for reinstallation is catastrophic data corruption. > i can run any other Windowmanager fine which is really annoying. Look at it on the bright side: it proves that it's an enlightenment problem. > i've heard of quite a few cases of enlightenment deciding it > wouldn't work anymore. it seems to be a very strange program. I gather there are still a number of bugs in it. > if anyone has any other ideas it'd be appreciated. i'd like to get > it working again. Do you have the latest version? I know you said where you got it from, but I no longer have the information. If it's off a CD-ROM, you might find something better on the Net. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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