William H Bouterse wrote:
>
> "Warning: null child passed to XtManageChildren"
> I get this on attempting to access messages filters.
>
> This obviously has some bearing on why my filters
> are getting "disappeared" !?
>
> Is this only my problem?
>
> Also I am seeing this error if I attempt
> to bring up program as user.
> su' ing can access it with no prob.
> Previous to,(how the heck am I
> supposed to remember at this stage?
> everything was fine!)
>
> so the permissions got thrashed!?:
>
> private per-user Gnome directory </home/bill/.gnome_private> - aborting
> aborting...
> /usr/bin/abiword: line 37: 1359 Aborted $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d
> "$@"
>
> William Bouterse
> Talkeetna Ak
William....that error message is caused by corruption in the
~home/.netscape/mailrule file and is easily corrected. The
usual way the corruption happens is by using copy/paste to
create or edit the mail filters. Don't do that any more and
the corruption should no longer occur.
To fix the file open it in an editor and visually scan it for
an occurrence of a linefeed followed by a bunch of spaces.
Remove the linefeed and spaces (make that entry look like all
of the other entries) and the file will again be recognisable
by netscape messenger.
Alan
