Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 55, Issue 5

Hi Jerry,

I had a similar problem with Ubuntu when I first started. As far as I
remember the problem was with the version of Nedit I downloaded using
apt-get. When I downloaded the latest version from nedit.org the
problem went away.


Fergal

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> From: "Jerry L. Kazdan" <kazdan-vZPEP/[email protected]>
> Subject: nedit on Ubuntu 8.04 crashing
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> This is a fairly recent problem using NEdit on Ubuntu 8.04.
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> 1. In a terminal window if I run "nedit" or "ncl" (not specifying a file
> name) and then use File/Open then NEdit crashes immediately with a
> Segmentation fault. The same thing happens if I use either "Save" or
> Save As".
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> 2. 1. In a terminal window if I run "nedit" or "ncl" (not specifying a
> file name) and then use File/Previous and pick a file, then NEdit works
> correctly.  But then it crashes if I use File/Save As. But it does not
> crash if I use "Save".
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> 3. In a terminal window if I run "nedit" or "ncl" specifying an existing
> file modify it then use File/Save As then NEdit crashes immediately. But
> it does not crash if I use "Save".
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> Any hints?
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> Here is what nedit -V gives:
>   UTF8 locale not supported.
>   NEdit 5.5
>   Sep 30, 2004
>
>        Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
>        Built at: Oct  1 2004, 15:55:40
>      With Motif: 2.1.30 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30]
>   Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
>          Server: The X.Org Foundation 10400090
>          Visual: 32-bit TrueColor (ID 0x85)
>          Locale: en_US.UTF-8
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> Hope this is easy to fix.
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>        -- Jerry
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