On Mon, Jun 21, 2004, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: >Hi list, > >I rolled my own perl-tk script for adding/removing users on our cluster >and it has been running fine for some years now. >But when i wanted to use it today, it died with:
My SWAG is that you've updated perl recently, but not updated the perl::Tk modules. Running two versions of perl on the same machine is possible (we do it under the OpenPKG.org packagement system all the time), but can easily lead to problems like this. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # usrmgr/usrmgr.pl >[the usual messages about unused variables] >X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) > Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) > Atom id in failed request: 0x1a6 > Serial number of failed request: 12 > Current serial number in output stream: 15 > >I have no clue what this could be. Other X11 apps run fine. I am logged >in via ssh -X. >Versions: >FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 >p5-Tk-804.027 >perl-5.6.1_15 Practical Extraction and Report Language >perl-5.8.4 Practical Extraction and Report Language > >2 versions of perl? Is this ok? > >Does anyone have an idea? > >Regards, > Heinrich >-- > >Heinrich Rebehn > >University of Bremen >Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering >- Department of Telecommunications - > >Phone : +49/421/218-4664 >Fax : -3341 >_______________________________________________ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.'' --George Orwell _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
