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xedit segfaults (was Re: First time installing XFree86)


On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> >
> > > > I don't know if the segfault I get starting xedit is
> > > > related. All other applications I tried work.
> > > >
> > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is a symlink to
> > > > /l/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, which is read-only (directories
> > > > dr-xr-xr-x and files -r--r--r--). Since I'm not going to run
> > > > mkfontdir I suppose it should work.
> > >
> > > Are you asking us a question in the above?  I didn't see one...
> >
> > I think you can interpret is as a question. Does xedit work for
> > you ? Here it just segfaults at startup. If yes, maybe I should
> > install the encodings and fonts to see if I can reproduce it.
> >
> > Yesterday I compared the contents of both packages with my
> > Linux fonts and didn't see any differences, so the only
> > difference is the symlink to the XFree86 fonts directory of my
> > Linux partition and the read-only flags.
>
> I removed the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 symlink and installed
> XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-3 and XFree86-fnts-4.2.0-3. xedit still
> segfaults at startup. It isn't an issue for me because I don't
> use it. I was just testing the applications, but it obviously
> isn't related to the symlink and read-only.

Sorry, I see this has been reported before.

Anyway, I tried compiling xedit (only) from CVS xf-4_3-branch
and HEAD. Same problem.

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