From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 13:17:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA64816A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:17:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@irotas.net) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7091C43D48 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:17:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@irotas.net) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106AACDBE04; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:17:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from web3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.212]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:17:54 -0500 Received: by web3.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 750525E0F; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:17:54 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1131542274.13092.247121026@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: ETHTZ0F9l8jIDgojDhGRveXPrVG/M017iPIjoXlCqzgO 1131542274 From: "Adam McLaurin" To: "Alex Ford" , "FreeBSD-GNOME" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.5 (F2.73; T1.15; A1.64; B3.05; Q3.03) References: <1131504138.16869.247088912@webmail.messagingengine.com> <2BF9EB59-78DB-49F8-A741-306E5E124DE3@ahze.net> <1131512023.67656.10.camel@workdesk> In-Reply-To: <1131512023.67656.10.camel@workdesk> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:17:54 -0500 Cc: Subject: Re: xchat v2.6.0 crashing X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:17:56 -0000 Hi Alex, Well, I enabled dbus and reboot (without modifying my ~/.xchat2) and now the new xchat works fine. It seems they don't handle gracefully with dbus is not available. Anyway, thanks for the tip. -Adam On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:53:43 -0500, "Alex Ford" said: > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 21:57 -0500, Michael Johnson wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:42 PM, Adam McLaurin wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > xchat2 v2.6.0 crashes for me right after the GUI starts up and it > > > tries > > > to connect to the server. > > > > > > > > > I upgraded my xchat along with all the new GNOME/GTK stuff, but the > > > rest > > > of what was upgraded seems to be working, so probably xchat is to > > > blame. > > > > > > Anyone else experiencing similar problems? > > > > > > I'm running 5.4-RELEASE here, if it matters. > > > > I had this same exact problem after updating everything on my system > yesterday. Running 6.0-RELEASE here. > > > I personally haven't seen this, but I have seen other people on irc > > bitch about it. > > It seems it has something to do with ~/.xchat2 config and if you > > remove it > > everything will work. Please file a bug with xchat dev people > > I also tried playing around with removing ~/.xchat. It only succeeded in > letting the server connect box come up (as opposed to crashing right > away). If I then hit the connect button it brings up the regular xchat > interface and connects to an IRC channel (the default #chatjunkie, IIRC) > and you can use it normally. If you checked that box that disables the > server connect at startup, however, it still crashed the next time I > attempted to run it. > > On a whim, having been hearing about more and more GNOME apps using > dbus, I went and followed the instructions in the freebsd.org/gnome FAQ > to enable it. > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q25 > > I rebooted and xchat started up perfectly fine. Now, I don't know if it > was directly related, but I had only played around with that ~/.xchat2 > directory, nothing else after the upgrading, until the dbus > enabling/rebooting. > > Just my experience for what it's worth, > Alex > > > >