Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:42:58 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@stud.math.ntnu.no> Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some observations with xmaple (Maple V4 R5, Linux version) Message-ID: <199710160013.JAA02448@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Oct 1997 16:20:08 %2B0200." <199710151420.HAA17681@hub.freebsd.org>
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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
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