Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-24 Thread George Mitchell

Reinhard Katzmann wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:35:26AM -0800, George Mitchell wrote:
>
>>Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
>>
>>>and you could even be part of the development. Probably not comparable
>>>to products like Pagestream, Quark or similar (and last time I looked
>>>there was only one (commercial) alternative available for Linux), but
>>>it's free :-). 
>>>
>
>>Actually I have tried scribus and am kind of observing it mature.  I 
>>really like the direction it is headed, but there are a number of 
>>niceties that it lacks.  It seemingly requires you to first create the 
>>text with a text editor or something like that.  I found it a bit 
>>
>
>I had no problems with text typing. Just needed to select a proper font
>from the Edit/Fonts menu (hope that is right, I'm using the german
>version here) and after that the frame edit function (hand icon with the
>prompt symbol I)
>
>Regards,
>
>Reinhard
>
Perhaps I'm missing something, I'll give it another go.  Thanks for the 
tip






Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-24 Thread Reinhard Katzmann

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:35:26AM -0800, George Mitchell wrote:
> Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
> 
> >and you could even be part of the development. Probably not comparable
> >to products like Pagestream, Quark or similar (and last time I looked
> >there was only one (commercial) alternative available for Linux), but
> >it's free :-). 
> >

> Actually I have tried scribus and am kind of observing it mature.  I 
> really like the direction it is headed, but there are a number of 
> niceties that it lacks.  It seemingly requires you to first create the 
> text with a text editor or something like that.  I found it a bit 

I had no problems with text typing. Just needed to select a proper font
from the Edit/Fonts menu (hope that is right, I'm using the german
version here) and after that the frame edit function (hand icon with the
prompt symbol I)

Regards,

Reinhard
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Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-24 Thread George Mitchell

Reinhard Katzmann wrote:

>Hi George!
>
>On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:22:12PM -0800, George Mitchell wrote:
>
>>Charles A Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>In a "perfect" world everything would always work and in dreams I at times
>>>stumble upon one, but then I am once again trying to get that gd nvidia
>>>driver mod to load.
>>>
>>>
>
>>Well I just had a need to generate business cards.  My choices for that 
>>(other than WP8) were glabels (an excellent little tool by the way) and 
>>Open Office.  I chose Open Office because it has better font and 
>>
>
>>facing pages on a landscaped letter size sheet like WP8?).  I would also 
>>like to see them support postal bar codes.  I currently own a copy of 
>>WP2K, but have no intention of installing it due to the quirkiness of 
>>Corel's crappy installer.  
>>
>
>Well if you're into desktop publishing capabilities (which neither WP8,
>WP2000, OO/SO or whatever word processor is made for!) you should use
>a DTP program. There is a free one called scribus (in contrib) and it
>works nice with all the fonts I tried. It is still being developed
>and you could even be part of the development. Probably not comparable
>to products like Pagestream, Quark or similar (and last time I looked
>there was only one (commercial) alternative available for Linux), but
>it's free :-). 
>
>If you just want to have some graphic editing capabilities there are
>enough powerful programs with support both bitmapped as well as vector
>based graphics (like the gimp and dia).
>
>Regards,
>
>Reinhard
>
Actually I have tried scribus and am kind of observing it mature.  I 
really like the direction it is headed, but there are a number of 
niceties that it lacks.  It seemingly requires you to first create the 
text with a text editor or something like that.  I found it a bit 
convoluted.  I am hoping to eventually see products along the lines of 
Adobe Pagemaker or Acrobat.  I have also used Gimp and Dia.  Gimp 
absolutely lacks nothing!  Its there already.  As for Dia, its 
promising, and getting there quickly.  KWord also appears to have 
eventual possibilities for publishing, its just not there yet.  Anyway, 
thanks for the info.

- George






Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-24 Thread Reinhard Katzmann

Hi George!

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:22:12PM -0800, George Mitchell wrote:
> Charles A Edwards wrote:
> 
> >In a "perfect" world everything would always work and in dreams I at times
> >stumble upon one, but then I am once again trying to get that gd nvidia
> >driver mod to load.
> >
> >

> Well I just had a need to generate business cards.  My choices for that 
> (other than WP8) were glabels (an excellent little tool by the way) and 
> Open Office.  I chose Open Office because it has better font and 

> facing pages on a landscaped letter size sheet like WP8?).  I would also 
> like to see them support postal bar codes.  I currently own a copy of 
> WP2K, but have no intention of installing it due to the quirkiness of 
> Corel's crappy installer.  

Well if you're into desktop publishing capabilities (which neither WP8,
WP2000, OO/SO or whatever word processor is made for!) you should use
a DTP program. There is a free one called scribus (in contrib) and it
works nice with all the fonts I tried. It is still being developed
and you could even be part of the development. Probably not comparable
to products like Pagestream, Quark or similar (and last time I looked
there was only one (commercial) alternative available for Linux), but
it's free :-). 

If you just want to have some graphic editing capabilities there are
enough powerful programs with support both bitmapped as well as vector
based graphics (like the gimp and dia).

Regards,

Reinhard
-- 
Software-Engineer, Developer for Embedded Devices
Project: Pertergrin, a role playing game system
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Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-24 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah


Sorry guys, i prefer to quite some time on Kernel than fixing support
of binary apps

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Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-24 Thread SI Reasoning

They have an installer you can download from their
site that installed it fairly painlessly. I was even
able to install it within the last month on cooker.

That said, there has been little to no movement on
Corel's part to improve or even support their linux
version. It seems to be in line with a lot of
commercial products I have dealt with in the past
unfortunately. I have gotten rather spoiled working
with open source software.

I actually have noticed a curve between cost of
software and the lousyness of the software and
support. They both seem to escalate together. This
continues to baffle me.


--- George Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles A Edwards wrote:
> 
> >On 23 Jan 2002 19:44:55 +0100
> >Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>George Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >>>Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you
> and the app
> >>>vendor are at having a standoff as to who is
> going to solve the
> >>>problem and NEITHER of you care that the user is
> getting screwed
> >>>in the equation.  Now I really don't expect Corel
> to care whether
> >>>the user gets screwed or not, but I somehow would
> expect more of
> >>>Mandrake.  Am I expecting too much here?
> >>>
> >>We're not talking about the same thing here. One
> thing is the
> >>ethical/moral issue, another thing is user
> satisfaction. Of
> >>course as a company our main goal is user
> satisfaction, yet
> >>sometimes this aim clashes with another issue, and
> we can't say
> >>that promoting free software is not deeply
> connected to user
> >>satisfaction if you see it more globally.
> >>
> > 
> >If I can chip in here as just an average joe user.
> >
> >I own WP8 in both the Win and Linux versions, I
> like it as a wp and, in the
> >past have used it often.
> >
> >But however you cut it WP8 is a commercial
> application.
> >As such any resonsability for it maintance,
> portabilty, and futher development
> >rest squarly on the shoulders of its developers.
> >
> >Now, Corel, the outstanding company which brought
> us the ground breaking
> >and ever popular Corel Linux (tounge planted firmly
> in cheek) no longer supports
> >WP8 in any shape, version or form and in viewing
> there website one might
> >wonder if it ever existed.
> >
> >Am I bothered by this?
> >Damn right!
> >Do I feel that it should now be Mandrakes job to
> ensure that WP8 will run on
> >each new version of Mandrake Linux?
> >Oh, it might be nice, but no I do not expect them
> to do so.
> >
> >Just as once good hardware becomes old and obsolete
> and falls by the wayside
> >so also does software.
> >WP8 is now becoming another such causualty.
> >
> >There are now many other good/exellent wps
> available for linux and most 
> >are being constantly developed and maintained.
> >
> >If only WP will do then the choice is to spend the
> $s for WP Office.
> >
> >In a "perfect" world everything would always work
> and in dreams I at times
> >stumble upon one, but then I am once again trying
> to get that gd nvidia
> >driver mod to load.
> >
> >
> >Charles 
> >
> >
> >Do not mourn for the dead, celebrate the living and
> life. 
> > 
> >
> >
> >
> Well I just had a need to generate business cards. 
> My choices for that 
> (other than WP8) were glabels (an excellent little
> tool by the way) and 
> Open Office.  I chose Open Office because it has
> better font and 
> formating capabilities.  I was able to work around
> some bugs and correct 
> some others and come up with some fairly presentable
> business cards.  As 
> good as those produced by WP8 any day.  I hadn't
> used OO/SO for business 
> cards successfully before and was pleasantly
> surprised at the progress 
> they have made, so I guess I will be reformating all
> my cards via OO.  I 
> just hope that OO will get up to speed with
> publishing capabilities 
> (does anyone know of any publishing apps that can
> produce two numbered 
> facing pages on a landscaped letter size sheet like
> WP8?).  I would also 
> like to see them support postal bar codes.  I
> currently own a copy of 
> WP2K, but have no intention of installing it due to
> the quirkiness of 
> Corel's crappy installer.  
> 
> 
> 


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RE: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-23 Thread Borsenkow Andrej

> 
> Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> 
> >>I can't even successfully run "ldd /opt/wordperfect/wpbin/xwp"!  I
> >>get the following error when I do:
> >>
> >>/usr/bin/ldd: line 1: 11105 Bus error
> >>LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 LD_WARN= LD_BIND_NOW=
> >>LD_LIBRARY_VERSION=$verify_out
> >>LD_VERBOSE= "$file"
> >>
> >
> >Do not be silly. You can't ldd shell script.
> >
> >-andrej
> >
> >
> This doesn't look like shell script to me:
> 
> [ghmitch@localhost ghmitch]$ file apps/wp8/wpbin/xwp
> apps/wp8/wpbin/xwp: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
> (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared
> libs), stripped


Ouch. Sorry :(

-andrej




Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-23 Thread George Mitchell

Borsenkow Andrej wrote:

>>I can't even successfully run "ldd /opt/wordperfect/wpbin/xwp"!  I
>>get the following error when I do:
>>
>>/usr/bin/ldd: line 1: 11105 Bus error
>>LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 LD_WARN= LD_BIND_NOW=
>>LD_LIBRARY_VERSION=$verify_out
>>LD_VERBOSE= "$file"
>>
>
>Do not be silly. You can't ldd shell script.
>
>-andrej
>
>
This doesn't look like shell script to me:

[ghmitch@localhost ghmitch]$ file apps/wp8/wpbin/xwp
apps/wp8/wpbin/xwp: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 
(SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared
libs), stripped
[ghmitch@localhost ghmitch]$ ldd apps/wp8/wpbin/xwp
libXt.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40018000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40056000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x400e8000)
libm.so.5 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5 (0x400f6000)
libc.so.5 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 (0x400fe000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x401c7000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x401cf000)

Unless his xwp is different from mine.

- George






RE: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-23 Thread Borsenkow Andrej


> 
> I can't even successfully run "ldd /opt/wordperfect/wpbin/xwp"!  I
> get the following error when I do:
> 
> /usr/bin/ldd: line 1: 11105 Bus error
> LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 LD_WARN= LD_BIND_NOW=
> LD_LIBRARY_VERSION=$verify_out
> LD_VERBOSE= "$file"
> 

Do not be silly. You can't ldd shell script.

-andrej




Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-23 Thread George Czerw


I too would like to see this resolved once and for all.  I had no
problems with WordPerfect 8 until installing cooker, and am getting
the same Bus error message that you are getting.  I've posted this
problem in the Mandrake Open Forum, in the Mandrake usenet group and
in the Corel WordPerfect usenet group, but have gotten nowhere in
getting closer to resolving this problem.

I can't even successfully run "ldd /opt/wordperfect/wpbin/xwp"!  I
get the following error when I do:

/usr/bin/ldd: line 1: 11105 Bus error
LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 LD_WARN= LD_BIND_NOW= LD_LIBRARY_VERSION=$verify_out
LD_VERBOSE= "$file"

Perhaps that error might give someone who knows much more than I, a
clue as to a resolution!

George




Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-23 Thread George Mitchell

Charles A Edwards wrote:

>On 23 Jan 2002 19:44:55 +0100
>Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>George Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>>Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you and the app
>>>vendor are at having a standoff as to who is going to solve the
>>>problem and NEITHER of you care that the user is getting screwed
>>>in the equation.  Now I really don't expect Corel to care whether
>>>the user gets screwed or not, but I somehow would expect more of
>>>Mandrake.  Am I expecting too much here?
>>>
>>We're not talking about the same thing here. One thing is the
>>ethical/moral issue, another thing is user satisfaction. Of
>>course as a company our main goal is user satisfaction, yet
>>sometimes this aim clashes with another issue, and we can't say
>>that promoting free software is not deeply connected to user
>>satisfaction if you see it more globally.
>>
> 
>If I can chip in here as just an average joe user.
>
>I own WP8 in both the Win and Linux versions, I like it as a wp and, in the
>past have used it often.
>
>But however you cut it WP8 is a commercial application.
>As such any resonsability for it maintance, portabilty, and futher development
>rest squarly on the shoulders of its developers.
>
>Now, Corel, the outstanding company which brought us the ground breaking
>and ever popular Corel Linux (tounge planted firmly in cheek) no longer supports
>WP8 in any shape, version or form and in viewing there website one might
>wonder if it ever existed.
>
>Am I bothered by this?
>Damn right!
>Do I feel that it should now be Mandrakes job to ensure that WP8 will run on
>each new version of Mandrake Linux?
>Oh, it might be nice, but no I do not expect them to do so.
>
>Just as once good hardware becomes old and obsolete and falls by the wayside
>so also does software.
>WP8 is now becoming another such causualty.
>
>There are now many other good/exellent wps available for linux and most 
>are being constantly developed and maintained.
>
>If only WP will do then the choice is to spend the $s for WP Office.
>
>In a "perfect" world everything would always work and in dreams I at times
>stumble upon one, but then I am once again trying to get that gd nvidia
>driver mod to load.
>
>
>Charles 
>
>
>Do not mourn for the dead, celebrate the living and life. 
> 
>
>
>
Well I just had a need to generate business cards.  My choices for that 
(other than WP8) were glabels (an excellent little tool by the way) and 
Open Office.  I chose Open Office because it has better font and 
formating capabilities.  I was able to work around some bugs and correct 
some others and come up with some fairly presentable business cards.  As 
good as those produced by WP8 any day.  I hadn't used OO/SO for business 
cards successfully before and was pleasantly surprised at the progress 
they have made, so I guess I will be reformating all my cards via OO.  I 
just hope that OO will get up to speed with publishing capabilities 
(does anyone know of any publishing apps that can produce two numbered 
facing pages on a landscaped letter size sheet like WP8?).  I would also 
like to see them support postal bar codes.  I currently own a copy of 
WP2K, but have no intention of installing it due to the quirkiness of 
Corel's crappy installer.  






Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-23 Thread Charles A Edwards

On 23 Jan 2002 19:44:55 +0100
Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> George Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you and the app
> > vendor are at having a standoff as to who is going to solve the
> > problem and NEITHER of you care that the user is getting screwed
> > in the equation.  Now I really don't expect Corel to care whether
> > the user gets screwed or not, but I somehow would expect more of
> > Mandrake.  Am I expecting too much here?
> 
> We're not talking about the same thing here. One thing is the
> ethical/moral issue, another thing is user satisfaction. Of
> course as a company our main goal is user satisfaction, yet
> sometimes this aim clashes with another issue, and we can't say
> that promoting free software is not deeply connected to user
> satisfaction if you see it more globally.
> 
 
If I can chip in here as just an average joe user.

I own WP8 in both the Win and Linux versions, I like it as a wp and, in the
past have used it often.

But however you cut it WP8 is a commercial application.
As such any resonsability for it maintance, portabilty, and futher development
rest squarly on the shoulders of its developers.

Now, Corel, the outstanding company which brought us the ground breaking
and ever popular Corel Linux (tounge planted firmly in cheek) no longer supports
WP8 in any shape, version or form and in viewing there website one might
wonder if it ever existed.

Am I bothered by this?
Damn right!
Do I feel that it should now be Mandrakes job to ensure that WP8 will run on
each new version of Mandrake Linux?
Oh, it might be nice, but no I do not expect them to do so.

Just as once good hardware becomes old and obsolete and falls by the wayside
so also does software.
WP8 is now becoming another such causualty.

There are now many other good/exellent wps available for linux and most 
are being constantly developed and maintained.

If only WP will do then the choice is to spend the $s for WP Office.

In a "perfect" world everything would always work and in dreams I at times
stumble upon one, but then I am once again trying to get that gd nvidia
driver mod to load.


Charles 


Do not mourn for the dead, celebrate the living and life. 
 





Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-23 Thread George Mitchell

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

>George Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you and the app
>>vendor are at having a standoff as to who is going to solve the
>>problem and NEITHER of you care that the user is getting screwed
>>in the equation.  Now I really don't expect Corel to care whether
>>the user gets screwed or not, but I somehow would expect more of
>>Mandrake.  Am I expecting too much here?
>>
>
>We're not talking about the same thing here. One thing is the
>ethical/moral issue, another thing is user satisfaction. Of
>course as a company our main goal is user satisfaction, yet
>sometimes this aim clashes with another issue, and we can't say
>that promoting free software is not deeply connected to user
>satisfaction if you see it more globally.
>
>
So now with free software we have a choice!  We can choose proprietary 
software and be screwed by their immorality, or we can choose free 
software and be screwed by its morality.  Or we can be stuck in the 
middle and get it from both at the same time.  Actually I'm just trying 
to stir the pot here.  You guys are number one, and I mean that 
sincerely.  But hopefully you get my point.






Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-23 Thread SI Reasoning

I think the problem/issue in this case is the fact
that hardly anything can open wordperfect documents
anymore, except wordperfect. For those of us that have
documents in those formats, we stand to lose a lot of
our work so that is a bit frustrating. If it is
still available, I do know that WordPerfect 2000 (wine
version) still works with cooker, but it forces a
payment for a relatively unsupported, bloated and
neglected product.


--- Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> George Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you
> and the app
> > vendor are at having a standoff as to who is going
> to solve the
> > problem and NEITHER of you care that the user is
> getting screwed
> > in the equation.  Now I really don't expect Corel
> to care whether
> > the user gets screwed or not, but I somehow would
> expect more of
> > Mandrake.  Am I expecting too much here?
> 
> We're not talking about the same thing here. One
> thing is the
> ethical/moral issue, another thing is user
> satisfaction. Of
> course as a company our main goal is user
> satisfaction, yet
> sometimes this aim clashes with another issue, and
> we can't say
> that promoting free software is not deeply connected
> to user
> satisfaction if you see it more globally.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Guillaume Cottenceau -
> http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
> 


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Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-23 Thread George Mitchell

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you and the app vendor are 
at having a standoff as to who is going to solve the problem and NEITHER 
of you care that the user is getting screwed in the equation.  Now I 
really don't expect Corel to care whether the user gets screwed or not, 
but I somehow would expect more of Mandrake.  Am I expecting too much here?

- George


Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

>Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>Just as comment - this problem is almost a year old. Sometimes I am
>>really puzzled by mandrake policy.
>>
>
>It depends. For example, as for me (not showing Mandrake official
>position), I think that as I work for MandrakeSoft and we license
>all our development under the GPL, I don't want to spend some of
>my time working specifically because proprietary software vendors
>don't even want to recompile their things once a year. Call me
>free software fundamentalist, but it seems logical to me...
>
>







Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-23 Thread Marcel Pol

On 23 Jan 2002 12:52:36 -
Pablo Saratxaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Li Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:54:19 +0100,
>  Marcel Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scrîjheut:
>  MP> With current cooker it seems theres a problem with WordPerfect8.
>  MP> It reports a bus error now.
> 
> Since it's a libc5 program, check that you don't preload any libc6 library
> (LD_PRELOAD variable and  /etc/ld.so.preload are better to be empty).

Checked.

> Check also that you have libc5 libraries for al lthe ones WP is requesting,
> with ldd:
> ldd .../whereeveryouputit/wpbin/xwp
> 
> I have on an old machine:
> $ ldd /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp
> libXt.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40012000)
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4005)
> libXpm.so.4 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x400e6000)
> libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400f5000)
> libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x400fe000)
> libSM.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x401ba000)
> libICE.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x401c2000)

My libm.so.5 and libc.so.5 are in /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/.
Copying them to /lib and running ldconfig did not help.
ldconfig -v lists them though.
On 8.1 the location of the files was the same and it worked fine.
 
> In case you are missing one of those libraries or your 'ldd' cannot
> handle libc5 programs, I put some useful (and old, I wrote that
> page way before I started to work at Mandrakesoft) things 
> in http://chanae.stben.be/pablo/libc5.html
> and also in (look for *-libc5-* packages)
> http://chanae.stben.be/pub/Linux/developement/
> http://chanae.stben.be/pub/Linux/X11/libs/
> http://chanae.stben.be/pub/Linux/X11/XFree86/
> 
>  MP> I know its proprietary software, and its not a priority for Mandrake,
>  MP> but it would be nice if it was fixed. A lot of people still use Wp8.
> 
> It is also that libc5 is getting quite old.
> However, if you can solve your problem by installing a missing library;
> tell me which one(s) it was so I can see of adding it somewhere in
> contribs section.
> 
> Note however I don't give any guaranty for the above packages, and I don't
> even have sources anymore, only the binaries.

I am really clueless about what is going on.
I have /lib/ld-linux.so.1 from the ld.so package, which is the dependencie besides 
libc-5.
I and tried running ldconfig from the ld.so rpm but it gives the same results.

I did a modprobe binfmt_misc binfmt_aout.
I thought that it might need that. No workies.


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Marcel Pol
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Linux 2.4.17-6mdksmp, up 4 days, 5:24





Re: [Cooker] Wp8/libc5 and bus error.

2002-01-13 Thread George Mitchell

Many of us still depend on WP8.  There are functions that it performs 
well that at this point are unsupported by other applications.  There 
are also no doubt other old a.out binaries out there that people depend 
on.  Hopefully it gets fixed.

-George Mitchell


Marcel Pol wrote:

>With current cooker it seems theres a problem with WordPerfect8.
>It reports a bus error now.
>I know its proprietary software, and its not a priority for Mandrake, but it would be 
>nice if it was fixed. A lot of people still use Wp8.
>
>I have installed libc5 and the /lib/ld-linux.so1 from ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk.
>
>Heres a strace:
>
>strace /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp
>execve("/opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp", ["/opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0
>old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
>0x40007000
>mprotect(0x4000, 21868, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
>mprotect(0x8048000, 7298408, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
>stat("/etc/ld.so.cache", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=63248, ...}) = 0
>open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)  = 3
>old_mmap(NULL, 63248, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x40008000
>close(3)= 0
>stat("/etc/ld.so.preload", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
>open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)= 3
>old_mmap(NULL, 1, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40018000
>close(3)= 0
>--- SIGBUS (Bus error) ---
>+++ killed by SIGBUS +++
>
>And an ldd:
>ldd /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp
>/usr/bin/ldd: line 1:  1652 Bus error   LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 
>LD_WARN= LD_BIND_NOW= LD_LIBRARY_VERSION=$verify_out LD_VERBOSE= "$file"
>
>
>--
>Marcel Pol
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>
>Linux 2.4.16-10mdksmp, up 23:35, 2 users
>
>
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