On 5/14/14, 4:32 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > On 5/9/2014 9:31 AM, Mike Wilkes wrote: >> Thank you, Hanspeter. I installed firefox on the G4 as you suggested, >> without any problems. But when I try to start the firefox browser from >> within xfig, a browser window appears, then X11 crashes with >> >> g4ppc:app-defaults mikeppc$ xfig & [1] 8042 g4ppc:app-defaults mikeppc$ >> Error: No running window found >> xfig3.2.5b: SIGBUS signal trapped xfig: figure empty or not modified - >> exiting >> [1]+ Abort trap xfig >> And, if I try to launch firefox from Terminal, X11 again crashes with >> g4ppc:app-defaults mikeppc$ firefox The application 'firefox-bin' lost >> its connection to the display /tmp/launch 1STpeN/:0; most likely the X >> server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. > > No idea what could be causing that. Looks like something is affecting > X11 and its display file in /tmp, but I don't even know where to start > troubleshooting that (plus haven't used ppc/10.5 in probably 7 or 8 > years). A system reboot might help clean up the launch display > directories in /tmp, but I can't offer any help beyond that. Also, if > using any window manager besides Apple's quartz-wm, try to simplify your > .xinitrc (or even move it to test against a clean startup). > > Hanspeter > >
If you don't already have it installed, you might want to grab the latest Xquartz that supports 10.5/powerpc from macosforge.org . That replaces the system's X11 on 10.5 and provides some significant improvements (though on powerpc it does weird things to the appearance of buttons in GTK+2 apps, at least under some circumstances). -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
