Re: y fails to start but gives no useful error message

Hi Jerrit

On So, 2006-01-22 at 22:09 -0500, Jerrit Erickson wrote:
> 187           else if (pid != 0)
> 192               close (pipedes[1]);
> 197               ssize_t ret = read (pipedes[0], returns, sizeof (int) * 2);
> 198               if (ret > 0)
> 217                   if (ret == 0 || errno == EPIPE)
> 219                       fprintf (stderr, "Y: server exited before starting up\n");
> Y: server exited before starting up

it seems, that you've got a problem creating the pipe. I don't know the
source of Y but maybe you can provide information about the file it
happens in and I can have a look at the pipe creation part. 

I am not shure if we have multitrading here - at least in your strace
output you see it is a forked process. 

Hmm, wait:
Maybe the indention is missleading here, and we are past the (ret > 0)
then it could be a problem in the parent process. Meaning that the child
process (which would be the server) just died.

In that case you have to find out, why the child process has finished. -
maybe you could debug using DDD. And maybe you have the font problem
there. I don't know the code.


hope that helps 

Kristian