From: rafal@utstat.toronto.edu (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) Subject: Re: Seyon bug: freezes X server Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 03:30:05 GMT
In article <C1ztMJ.7Fo@world.std.com> dsb@world.std.com (David Boyce) writes:
>In article <1993Feb5.153632.5405@cc.umontreal.ca> duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Maybe someone can help me with this one. I compiled seyon 1.91 in
>>/usr/src/seyon. When I run it from that directory, everything goes fine. But
>>if I install it (make install) and run it from another directory, I lose
>>control of the mouse or the X server freezes and I have to kill it. I thought
>>maybe stripping was the problem but the unstripped version has the same
>>behavior. I changed my X server (I had Xfree1.1 from tsx and replaced it with
>>the SL:S version) but still no dice.
>>
>>BTW, the lockup happens as soon as the control panel comes up. After that,
>>all movement I make with the mouse sends a bunch of garbage characters to the
>>seyon window. Does anyone know what's going on?
>>
>>Thanks for your help.
>>--
>>Laurent Duperval, B. Sc. | The opinions expressed herein are my own and
>> | do not represent those of this establishment
>>duperval@ere.umontreal.ca | That's because they don't have enough $$$
>>duperval@jsp.umontreal.ca | to afford them. Noone does.
A guess: in your app-defaults there is Seyon-color file.
This file #includes Seyon. So if you (as I did) copied
Seyon-color to Seyon after copying Seyon t- Seyon-mono,
well you get it. It will try to include itself forever.
And it killed my machine (Well something was still
running but I pressed Big-Red. Fortunately no fs
loss).
Rafal
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