Re: Can't run afterstep 1.6.[06]
Albert Dorofeev albert@mail.dma.be
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:26:38 +0100 (CET)
Mark Stacey writes:
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> I did upgrade, but the only two binaries that I could see related to
> afterstep in /usr/X11R6/bin were afterstep and afterstepdoc, which I
> removed. Could there be more that I'm missing?
Yes, there are more. Here is approximately the list of binaries
in the current AS:
Animate Audio Auto Banner Cascade Clean
Form Ident Pager Save Script Scroll
Sound Tile Wharf WinList Zharf afterstep
> Would it have anything to do with any of the asapps that are set to run?
> Since I don't have the G/L/A directory, all those asapps are going to be
> started by default. I haven't tried messing with that configuration.
The asapps cannot harm the afterstep itself. If they
have problems they will simply fail to start but the
window manager should be running still.
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Mark Stacey wrote:
>
> > I had a previous version of afterstep, 1.4.55N I think it was and never
> had
> > any trouble, I've removed the .steprc and the G/L/Afterstep directories in
> > case they are causing trouble. I'm running Redhat 4.2 with kernel 2.1.128.
>
> > My X server is 3.3.2.
>
> Did you upgrade AS? If so, did you remember to remove the old binaries
> before you tried running?
>
> The old AS binaries are in /usr/X11R6/bin. The new ones go in
> /usr/local/bin/, so you can accidentally get a mix of binaries of the two
> versions. I expect this could cause trouble, although I don't know why it
> would segfault.
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