From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 7 19:38:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lewman.org (lowrider.lewman.org [63.109.230.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F3C37B43F for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:38:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.lewman.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 20D3B3D31; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:39:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lewman.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF475C02; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:39:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:39:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Sean Lutner X-Sender: sean@lowrider.lewman.org To: Warner Losh Cc: Ryan Losh , redbishop@linuxfan.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl Doesn't like XFree-4.0.1 In-Reply-To: <200009080207.UAA49324@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just as a "me too" I've been seeing this under 4.1-STABLE, with X 3.3.6 using Eterm. On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20000907181039Y.rklosh@rkl.org> Ryan Losh writes: > : I've had this same question on my system. You didn't, by chance, > : install GNOME, and are using gnome-session? I've noticed that > : behavior with perl, killall, elm-ME+, in a gnome-terminal, but not > : when run from the console. I just figured that the LC_CTYPE was being > : exported by gnome-session somewhere, and was a bug in GNOME. I've > : looked at the startx script, and it's not being set in there...If you > : unset LC_CTYPE, the error messages go away... > : > : Any other ideas? > > There are two or three likely sources for the LC_CTYPE. First, it > could be the X server. To see if this is the case, use the following > .xinitrc: > #!/bin/sh > xterm > and then do a printenv. I kinda doubt it as I don't see this on my > systems here, but I use XFree86 3.3.6. > > Second, it could be coming gnome-terminal. You can test this out by > changing the above script in the obvious way. Do a printenv as well. > This likely is where the problem came from. I don't use kde, gnome, > or anything more complex than twm + xterm or qvwm + xterm. > > In any event the make system likely should cope. > > Warner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message