Allan Rae wrote:
>
> 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?
No. I'm running 2.1
> Or do you know if a glibc-2.1 xforms exists?
I'll check, but last time I looked it did not distinguish glibc's.
> > > 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?
Check the clock?
> Allan. (ARRae)
