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To: Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@stud.math.ntnu.no>
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Subject: Re: some observations with xmaple (Maple V4 R5, Linux version) 
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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:42:58 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> 
> Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > When I set the DISPLAY variable to a remote host the program
> > just seg faults (segmentation violation) and dies. It shouldn't IMO.
> > 
> > (it's a 2.2.2 installation)
> 
> I had the same problem, but I solved it by just using linux's
> libc.so.5.3.12 instead of libc.so.5.4.23 (which is installed
> by ports/emulators/linux_lib now).  Looking at the nearby linux
> machines they were all using libc 5.3.12 anyway.

Great.  We went to 5.4.x because it was required by StarOffice.  I 
wonder if there's a newer version that fixes this problem.

> The crash is related to hostname lookups somehow, if you use
> the IP address in $DISPLAY it works.  It may be a bug in linux
> libc and/or maple for all I know, I haven't been able to find
> a linux machine with libc 5.4.23 to test maple on.

Hmm.  What settings are you using in /compat/linux/etc/host.conf?

mike