I guess the error message in XBoard's popup is a bit cryptic here because of a mismatch in locales. Apparently there is no Portugese translation of XBoard, but the 'not found' error message the system produces for the attempt to launch Fairy-Max is in Portugese: "209 <first : fairymax: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado". So XBoard does not recogise it, and fails to produce the usual "Startup failure on fairymax" error popup. It only discovers the problem later, when it tries to write commands to the engine that was never started through the connecting pipe.
209 <first : fairymax: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado Op Zo, 28 juli, 2019 12:03 am schreef [email protected]: > Hi, I recently installed xboard on Linux Mint 18.2, but when I try to do > something, the message below appears and the program quits: > > "xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Pipe quebrado" > > > attached the debug file
