"David L. Thompson" wrote:

> Let me see if I understand your problem.
>
> You have gotten the source to compile and you installed your compiled
> version. Then you type dx -uionly & and dx -execonly &. Connect the
> ui to the exec and it works. But if you type dx -edit, it never
> connects to the exec.
>
> How about if you just do dx -uionly, go to the connect menu and then
> try and start a dx server? What is the error message?

"Connect to server xxxx failed"

> Are you willing
> to try and debug this with a debugger?

Yes, but I will need some help because I don't have experience with this.

>
>
> David
>
> >I tried the Solaris 2.6 binary on Solaris 8 on Ultra10 and 5 without
> >success. Then, I got and compiled the source. After some fiddling I got
> >it to compile. However, when I run the program, the dxexec server cannot
> >be started. The only way to get the program running is to start dxexec
> >first, then start the gui and then connect to the existing server. so
> >far, nobody on the list could help me figure out what the problem here
> >is. I would sure like to get this to run without having to start the
> >server manually.
> >
> >
> >Michael Boyles wrote:
> >
> >>  I downloaded the binary that was compiled for Sun Solaris 2.6. But, I
> >>  am running Solaris 8 and am having problems getting the server to
> >>  start. The error message is as follows:
> >>
> >>  " Starting DX executive
> >>
> >>  ... cannot get shared memory segment / failed on segment 1 of 1 needed
> >>  segments / last call to shmget returned errno 22 cannot initialize DX
> >>  library. "
> >>
> >>  Any suggestions? Someone mentioned that Sun might have changed the
> >>  shared memory calls for Solaris 8. Anyone developing for Solaris 8?
> >>
> >>  Thanks,
> >>  - Mike
> >>
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