On Mon, 17 May 1999, Garst R. Reese wrote:
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> > Garst> Well, I think I reported this--- LyX crashes on startup if I
> > Garst> have gv or gimp running. The "Sorry you have found a bug in
> > Garst> LyX..." msg comes up. If I quit gv etc. all goes well. Of
> > Garst> course I can start gv with LyX already loaded.
Me too.
I can reproduce this now even with the very latest cvs on an 8bit display.
LyX dies on startup (don't even get a window).
I reported this about two months ago and even provided a backtrace.
At that stage we decided it was an xforms bug.
I've since upgraded to glibc-2.1.1 from 2.0.112 which had been crashing
before. XForms tries to print a message about not having enough colours
and its during the fprintf that it dies. I suspect that in my and Garst's
cases it's possible that XForms is using some undocumented global from
glibc that was removed during the move to 2.1 (just like how StarOffice
dies).
Garst are you able to test with a glibc-2.0.7 system?
Or do you know if a glibc-2.1 xforms exists?
> > This might happen when xforms has just enough colors at initialization
> > time, but LyX then runs out of colors when trying to get some
> > more... I do not know what we are supposed to do about it.
> >
> > JMarc
> Maybe just a note in the FAQ, or if LyX knows that the crash is
> happening at startup, add a line to the LyX bug msg.---"Maybe LyX failed
> to get enough colors.... It obviously will not help to put it in the
> docs.
Hmmm... how would we know how if we crashed at startup?
Allan. (ARRae)
