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Date:      Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:10:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be>
To:        John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Cc:        "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WordPerfect ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.980710040629.4046A-100000@alpha.double-barrel.be>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980709205857.370C-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>

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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, John Fieber wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Michael C. Vergallen wrote:
> 
> > I've just tested the demo off WordPerfect for Linux under FreeBSD and
> > have found that it works great.
> 
> I have the non-demo version and it works great for around 8 or 10
> days, then it crashes on startup, or shortly after startup.  A
> reboot clears the problem.  This is 2.2.6 with a 2.2.6-stable
> kernel.  Anyone else see this?
what daemon ? you mean the printer daemon it uses ? the printer daemon is
uninstallable each time with the -k option. if it is the licence deamon I
don't know about that one.
> 
> When you start it up the first time, it runs a little daemon that
> sticks around.  Eventually that spontanously dies (segfault or
> bus error, don't recall which) and after that, WP just doesn't
> work right again. It tries restarting the daemon which seems to
> fail...
probably because /tmp get cleaned out ...

Michael.



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