David Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | After a few hours of sleep I can add that the X paste buffer must be empty | for the crash to occur. If the X paste buffer contains something then it | just pastes the contents of the buffer into the infobar (why is it editable | at all?). The traceback shows the forms library clipboard request code to be | the culprit, my amateurish guess is that it is not handling the empty X paste | buffer gracefully - but what do I know?:What version of XForms are you using? Some versions have had problems with the clipboard. Are you also sure that you are using a xforms lib that is compiled for you libc? Lgb
As I mentioned in the original post the Xforms lib version is 0.89.
It is the glibc2.1 elf version from the XForms master ftp server, and I
am running a clean installed Redhat 6.2 distro on a brand new machine,
so it **should** be OK. This is the only lyx glitch I have so far
found, everything else looks fine and I have other forms library based
apps which don't seem to be showing any symptoms at this stage - bear in
mind the whole installation in less than two weeks old, so there could
be problems lurking that I have not tripped over yet. It would be
nice to be able to get the forms library source and rebuild it myself to
rule a libc hiccup out (and trace the crash a little better)..... oh well.
-- David C Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Materials Engineering Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Oulu PO Box 4200 Oulun Yliopisto 90014 FINLAND