[gentoo-user] mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Weird problem this one.  I updated to sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201 (from 
2.8_p20080602) and everything appears to be just fine.  With one 
exception: viewing files in Midnight Commander's built-in viewer doesn't 
work anymore.  Pressing F3 (View) does nothing.  Calling `mcview` or `mc 
-v file` also does nothing; the application simply exits with no error 
messages (or any other messages; just nothing).


Anyone encountered this?  I've rebuild mc of course and revdep-rebuild 
shows all is OK.

Re: [gentoo-user] mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Weird problem this one.  I updated to sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201 (from
 2.8_p20080602) and everything appears to be just fine.  With one exception:
 viewing files in Midnight Commander's built-in viewer doesn't work anymore.
  Pressing F3 (View) does nothing.  Calling `mcview` or `mc -v file` also
 does nothing; the application simply exits with no error messages (or any
 other messages; just nothing).

 Anyone encountered this?  I've rebuild mc of course and revdep-rebuild shows
 all is OK.

It still works fine for me. I'm using ~amd64 and these versions:

sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201
app-misc/mc-4.6.2_pre1

I didn't do anything special after upgrading glibc.

Does MC use file or some similar command to identify what kind of
document it is opening? Perhaps some supporting utility is broken on
your side for some reason.

Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Weird problem this one.  I updated to sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201 (from
 2.8_p20080602) and everything appears to be just fine.  With one exception:
 viewing files in Midnight Commander's built-in viewer doesn't work anymore.
  Pressing F3 (View) does nothing.  Calling `mcview` or `mc -v file` also
 does nothing; the application simply exits with no error messages (or any
 other messages; just nothing).

 Anyone encountered this?  I've rebuild mc of course and revdep-rebuild shows
 all is OK.

Also maybe you can try strace to see if anything unusual happens at
the end before it exits...

paul