From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 12:02:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA10161 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:02:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA10145 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:02:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id VAA12348; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:01:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199708181901.VAA12348@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Problems with xview In-Reply-To: <33F8589D.1ACA@cnt.org.br> from Rodrigo Ormonde at "Aug 18, 97 11:13:49 am" To: ormonde@trem.cnt.org.br (Rodrigo Ormonde) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:01:16 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello. > > I'm not sure if this problem is related with FreeBSD or XFree, but I'd > be glad if > someone could help me. > > I've just installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a new machine. Everything is > running fine, > except that *ALL* programs that use the xview library show the following > error messages: > > bash-2.00$clock > xview: Notifer error: Bad File Number > xview: Notifer error: Bad File Number > xview: Notifer error: Bad File Number > xview: Notifer error: Bad File Number > xview: Notifer error: Bad File Number > Segmentation fault (core dumped) This is a fixed after 2.2.2 was released. So you either get the latest port and recompile the xview lib (this will take some time to compile) or you get the latest package and install it (this will take some download time) The package can be found on the nearest FreeBSD ftp mirror in FreeBSD/packages-stable. The port in FreeBSD/ports. Wolfgang