Re: Crash on Startup

Hey Paul,

You've mentioned that you are using LessTif and FC13. A few things that
I've encountered lately and not so lately that might be to blame:

1) I've never had luck with anything that links against LessTif. Lockups
are one of the common results that I encounter when using LessTif
programs. To this end, I always replace all the programs linked to
LessTif with OpenMotif based ones. I find them to be much more reliable.

2) You should make sure that LessTif is really the library that nedit
uses using 'ldd'. FC13 does come with OpenMotif, I think, so it wouldn't
be surprising to find a version on there as well. Version 2.2 of
OpenMotif never really worked very well, and the only really stable
version is 2.1 (though I use 2.3 currently, and it's stable "enough").
Either way, it might be good to see if you have any conflicts there.

3) There were some recent X.org updates that some distributions sent out
which caused major problems with my Motif based applications, where mwm
and other programs would freeze up the whole system do to some bad loop
in the X.org system. I have a patch for the X.org that is distributed
for Slackware64 13.1, but I don't know that this will help you much.
However, you might want to check whether you have one of these versions.
My X.org server version is 1.7.7.

4) Others have mentioned graphics drivers, and that's a very good place
to look.

5) I have had troubles with the precompiled nedit versions, and so I
usually compile myself from CVS. Make sure that you have the devel
packages for motif installed, and then nedit should compile fairly
painlessly.

   Aaron W. Hsu

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, [email protected] wrote:

> Was using Nedit 5.5 on fresh FC13 install.  Nedit  was working fine as usual, until a couple weeks ago.  After some FC13 updates (not sure which one(s) was/were the culprit), nedit now locks up the PC when nedit is launched. Doesn't matter whether it starts from command line or from a file association in nautilus. The window starts to draw (just the window outline, background and menu bar, no menu bar text, no window title, no window resize/close buttons, no text at all).   Believe it is crashing X, not the entire PC,  as I have seen disk activity after the lockup, but cannot bail from/restart X without rebooting. I have to reboot the PC via reset button or power cycle.
>
> Tried uninstall/reinstall via yum to no avail.   Also was not able to compile from source, but I gave up after a just couple of attempts to resolve missing files.  A search of the archives hasn't turned up a fix.  Have used Nedit for over a decade and hate to switch.  Any clues?   Am running an AMD dual core x64 processor and gnome.  The FC13 install package as reported by yum info is:
>
> Name       : nedit
> Arch       : x86_64
> Version    : 5.5
> Release    : 22.fc12
> Size       : 489 k
> Repo       : fedora
>
> Seems odd the release is fc12 and not fc13....
>
> Any info is appreciated. TIA
> -Paul
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