[PLUG] Accidently broke WP

Anthony Schlemmer aschlemm at attbi.com
Tue May 7 00:57:45 UTC 2002


It's been sometime since I used WP8 but I recall I broke it when I 
migrated my workstation to glibc from the older libc5. Make sure you 
have the old libc5 in your system.

Can you use the "ldd" command and see what libraries the WP8 executable 
expects?

Tony

On Monday 06 May 2002 16:10 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   I must have accidently removed a library that WordPerfect/8 needs
> because it will not load today. What's interesting is that the splash
> screen comes up, the process list shows
>
> 18233 ttyp1    R     13:08 /usr1/wp8/wpbin/xwp
>
> but the program doesn't finish loading.
>
>   I tried running it through /usr/bin/strace, but it scrolled off the
> screen. Trial-and-error hasn't lead me to the proper syntax to send
> the output to a file for examination.
>
>   Here's where it's hanging:
>
> times({tms_utime=30, tms_stime=116, tms_cutime=0, tms_cstime=0}) =
> -2136175216 times({tms_utime=30, tms_stime=116, tms_cutime=0,
> tms_cstime=0}) = -2136175216 times({tms_utime=30, tms_stime=116,
> tms_cutime=0, tms_cstime=0}) = -2136175216
>
>   Of course, this has been running a few seconds.
>
>   Can anyone suggest how I can determine what I broke so I can fix
> it? I have project and administrative documents in WordPerfect that I
> must get out tomorrow.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>
>
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