Hanspeter and Alex, thanks to you both for hanging with me on this-I know that
you have much more pressing issues than helping to get one of these old ppc
machines to behave well. Yes, I had done a software update after installing
leopard, and forgot about the problem of Apple's X11 wiping out Xquartz in the
process (I think at one point I had Xquartz installed). Reinstalled Xquartz
2.6.3 and all is well in ppc land: xfig now uses firefox to read the html
version of its users manual just fine, and fink's xpdf reads the pdf version.
As usual, your support is above and beyond the call. Thanks again.
-Mike
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 07:25:11 -0700
> From: alexanderk.han...@gmail.com
> To: fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net; mike.wil...@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Problems with sources.list and osx 10.5
> powerpc? And now, firefox.
>
> 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/
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