On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 11:27, Ben Rockwood wrote:
> I'm happy to report the first non-Linux build of DR16.7-pre1 is out and
> ready for use.  This is a build for Solaris10 (yes, it's a beta OS) on 
> Sparc.

Well, I just upgraded to Solaris 10_58, and once I was sure that was
stable, I pulled over this Solaris/SPARC test binary package and
installed it.  Not so happy it's going into /usr/local - that's supplied
over NFS from our group server, so I had to install it there.  But
otherwise the install was fine.

I'm also using it as the replacement WM for Gnome, rather than on its
own.  This was the reason I moved to 0.16.6, for the support for that
=O)

So far, I've seen 2 SEGVs and no coredumps.  The first seemed to be
because I was using the menus having set off a menu regeneration.  The
second was while I was trying to figure out what was going on with my
icon boxes (it turned out I had three stacked in the bottom left, after
a weird problem last week with the old version I'd built myself and a
reboot I didn't initiate - not a Solaris fault, a man came around to do
our annual power checks while I was on holiday, so they shutdown my
desktop dirty).  Everything else seems fine, and no other crashes so far
- but since the last version was incredibly stable, these two crashes
are disturbing.

I also note that on attempting a restart, I get a dialogue wanting to
edit my .xinitrc, and even if I can click to get rid of it, it just
hangs on the spinning watch.  This was fixed a while back, but seems to
have come back?  It was only ever a problem on Solaris, and some checks
for whether or not there really was another WM running were added.  I
see 3 processes on my box, because I have 2 screens off two separate
(and different) graphics cards in here.

The lack of cores is a pain - I'll try to force one if it SEGVs again.

Ta,
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