Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:17:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@telerama.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Applix 5.0 on FreeBSD 4.2 help needed. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101271214460.5065-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain>
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I posted this on the comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc news group and no
one was able to help, so I thought I would try the email group.
I bought the Desktop edition of FreeBSD with Applix 5.0. I was
also sent the FreeBSD 4.2 4CD set. I installed FreeBSD 4.2 w/o
any problems. I used the pkg_add command to install Applix 5.0.
The Applix install took forever. It almost took as long to install
as the FreeBSD 4.2 install.
I fire up "X" and in an xterm window I issue tha Applix command.
I get a message box that says:
Unable to open screenfont: 12 point Helvetia.
screenfont name: -applix-axhvr-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1
Proceeding with the main dialog font as substitute.
In my xterm window I get the errors:
WARNING: unable to access Applix fonts.
The font path being used by the product is:
'/usr/local/applix/axfonts/all_pcf'
If this is not appropriate for your display, restart,
specifying '-fp your_font_path' on the command line.
Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkgc.c: line 484 (gdk_gc_set_font): assertion `font != NULL' failed.
Finally Applix comes up for use. If I pick the "spreadsheet" icon
on the Applix toolbar I get:
axmain: signal Segmentation fault
and Applix crashes tool bar and all. So I try to fire up Applix again.
This time I have a 20 second wait and get the following error:
Binding TCP socket: Address already in use
Fatal: Cannot establish any listening sockets
Notice: Font server terminated: Sat Jan 27 11:31:25 2001
Font server terminated
It seems that when you terminate Applix it leaves a "axnet" and a "axfontfs"
process running. It seems that when you run Applix the second time it
doesn't know that the fontserver, "axfontfs", is running and tries to
establish a second one, which eventually fails with the above
"Binding TCP socket: Address already in use" error above.
If I issue: " killall axfontfs;killall axmain;killall axnet" after I
close Applix then everything is OK for the next time. I have to issue
the "killall" commands or Applix keeps giving me the errors. If I
remember to issue the "killall" commands after each Applix session,
I never have any more trouble with it.
Now comes the interesting part. If I shut down "X" and restart "X"
The Applix errors start all over again at the top of this email.
Someone indicated that I need GTK installed. A pkg_info shows that
I have "gtk-1.2.8 General Toolkit for X11 GUI" installed
already.
Can somebody help me out here? The Desktop edition with Applix 5.0
ran me a cool $150US and I feel I got shafted with software that
isn't ready for production use. The people that use my system should
not have to restart Applix twice, and issue a bunch of "killall"
commands just to be able to use the Applix 5.0 office product.
--
Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 & FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE
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