Re: red carpet crashes

Mark Gordon <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:05:34 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.ximian.red-carpet
Organization Ximian, Inc.
Message-ID <1066421134.1458.28.camel@boatswain>
Didn't you say that it crashes?  OK, if it's not sending anything to
stderr, then try running it through gdb to get a stack trace.

-Mark Gordon

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 15:48, drew einhorn wrote:
> Doesn't say much:
> 
> [drew@dlap drew]$ sudo red-carpet
> Red Carpet Client 2.0.2
> Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Ximian Inc.
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 13:44, Mark Gordon wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 15:23, drew einhorn wrote:
> > > Around a month or so ago red carpet updated itself on one of my boxes,
> > > it hasn't been the same since.  Now, whenever red carpet is run the main
> > > screen starts to come up, but it crashes within a second, and is gone
> > > before it even finishes painting itself.
> > > 
> > > How do I get it back to a healthy state.
> > 
> > Are you running it from the menu, or are you running it from a terminal
> > window? If you run it (ideally as root, using su) from a terminal,
> > you'll get to see what it sends to stderr.  That's the first thing to
> > check.
> > 
> > -Mark Gordon
> > 
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