[PLUG] LyX won't start

Derek Loree derek at infotects.com
Mon Aug 5 23:22:04 UTC 2002


Hi Kevin,

Well it did give you more information. :)

On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 15:53, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> 
> On 5 August 2002 at 14:33, Derek Loree <derek at infotects.com> wrote:
> 
> How about strace?  It may give you more information.
> 
> 
> 
> Well, I got about 2k lines from strace.  Here's the last several.  
> Any ideas as to why this won't start?  Thanks....
> 
> 
>
[snip]
> uname({sys="Linux", node="joseph.ens.tek.com", ...}) = 0
> open("/home/kevinc/.Xdefaults-joseph.ens.tek.com", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> write(3, "g\0\1\0", 4)                  = 4
> 
Here is one problem, but this doesn't look fatal.
 
> 
> 	Gobs of "EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)" sections 
> 	trimmed for email friendliness.
> 

Do you know why the resource is temporarily unavailable?

> 
> 
> select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL)        = 1 (in [3])
> read(3, "\1\0\252\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\300"..., 32) = 32
> write(3, "\24\0\6\0000\6\240\4`\2\0\0!\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 24) = 24
> read(3, 0xbfffedc4, 32)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL)        = 1 (in [3])
> read(3, "\0\3\253\0010\6\240\4\0\0\24\277\361|\r\10\250\10z\10p"..., 32) = 32
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XErrorDB", O_RDONLY) = 4
> fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=34077, ...}) = 0
> brk(0x852a000)                          = 0x852a000
> read(4, "! $Xorg: XErrorDB,v 1.3 2000/08/"..., 34077) = 34077
> close(4)                                = 0
> brk(0x8533000)                          = 0x8533000
> brk(0x853c000)                          = 0x853c000
> brk(0x853d000)                          = 0x853d000
> brk(0x853e000)                          = 0x853e000
> brk(0x853f000)                          = 0x853f000
> brk(0x8540000)                          = 0x8540000
> write(2, "X Error of failed request:  BadW"..., 67X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>   ) = 67

This one looks fatal, I'm not sure, but something about the window
properties is not being passed on correctly.

> write(2, "Major opcode of failed request: "..., 35Major opcode of failed request:  20) = 35
> write(2, " (X_GetProperty)\n", 17 (X_GetProperty)
> )      = 17
> write(2, "  ", 2  )                       = 2
> write(2, "Resource id in failed request:  "..., 41Resource id in failed request:  0x4a00630) = 41
> write(2, "\n", 1
> )                       = 1
> write(2, "  ", 2  )                       = 2
> write(2, "Serial number of failed request:"..., 37Serial number of failed request:  427) = 37
> write(2, "\n  ", 3
>   )                     = 3
> write(2, "Current serial number in output "..., 44Current serial number in output stream:  427) = 44
> write(2, "\n", 1
> )                       = 1
> _exit(1)                                = ?
> 

It looks like all the rest of the failures occurred because of the first
BadWindow problem.

Derek






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