On 2009-10-11, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> He may also want to ask the question "Do I *really* need
> acroread?" and get the full complete answer. In my experience
> very few people actually need all the features in acroread,
> and okular|evince are quite adequate
Do okular or eveince have a "print c
On 10/11/2009 05:14 PM, Denis wrote:
>> He may also want to ask the question "Do I *really* need acroread?" and get
>> the full complete answer. In my experience very few people actually need all
>> the features in acroread, and okular|evince are quite adequate
>
> I am flexible on acroread, but a
>> But X crashing from my use of Mathematica is absolutely unacceptable -
>
> I agree, it shouldn't crash. Are you starting Mathematica by clicking on
> an icon in a menu? If so, I'd suggest starting it from an xterm command
> prompt because you may see some helpful error messages before the cras
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 21:46 -0400, Denis wrote:
> >> But X crashing from my use of Mathematica is absolutely unacceptable -
> >
> > I agree, it shouldn't crash. Are you starting Mathematica by clicking on
> > an icon in a menu? If so, I'd suggest starting it from an xterm command
> > prompt becau
Brandon,
Thanks very much for all this information about Mathematica - that
gives me a glimmer of hope!
> 1) If you haven't already, recompile your xf86* packages. Somehow I
> missed those when upgrading X, which caused issues for me.
I did recompile all the xf86 packages that qlist came up with
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 01:18 -0400, Denis wrote:
> libguide.so
I don't have this one, and I don't know what it is.
> libgmp.so.3
This is probably the gmp (GNU Multiple Precision) arithmetic library.
> libvml.so
I don't have this one, but I'm pretty sure it is part of Intel MKL (see
below).
> l
Brandon,
Thank you for helping me along here!
Here is the output of "ldd Mathematica":
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb8042000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb800c000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7ff4000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb7feb000)
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 03:18 -0400, Denis wrote:
> Brandon,
>
> Thank you for helping me along here!
>
> Here is the output of "ldd Mathematica":
>
> linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb8042000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb800c000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 00:33:02 Brandon Vargo wrote:
> > Basically, the only thing that triggers the crash is if I hold down
> > the mouse button and drag the scrollbar UP right after I drag it DOWN.
> > Dragging it down doesn't seem to make any difference by itself and
> > hasn't crashed the
I tried a few things today:
1) rebuilt all x11-libs, media-libs, and anything I could think of
that would be related to x11-libs (such as gtk+, qt...)
2) downgraded to xorg-server-1.5
Neither of these things helped. Alan's hypothesis sounds plausible,
but I don't even know which package to po
Denis wrote:
> I tried a few things today:
>
> 1) rebuilt all x11-libs, media-libs, and anything I could think of
> that would be related to x11-libs (such as gtk+, qt...)
>
> 2) downgraded to xorg-server-1.5
>
> Neither of these things helped. Alan's hypothesis sounds plausible,
> but I don't e
On 13 Oct 2009, at 01:25, Denis wrote:
I tried a few things today:
...
Neither of these things helped. Alan's hypothesis sounds plausible,
but I don't even know which package to point fingers at!
Have you `emerge -e world` yet?
Stroller.
> Have you `emerge -e world` yet?
>
> Stroller.
I have that going now. I offloaded OpenOffice to shorten the duration
of the rebuild, and I don't have KDE or Gnome - just fluxbox. So it
should finish by sometime tomorrow, probably. There are 604 packages
total. Instead of trying to rebuild X-r
Ok, "emerge -e world" completed successfully.
Bad news: X still crashes when scrolling in Mathematica...
On to the downgrade of xcb then, as much as I'd rather not do that.
As suggested, I would edit the world file to remove main X packages
and then use emerge --depclean to prune out the danglers
Denis wrote:
> Ok, "emerge -e world" completed successfully.
>
> Bad news: X still crashes when scrolling in Mathematica...
>
> On to the downgrade of xcb then, as much as I'd rather not do that.
> As suggested, I would edit the world file to remove main X packages
> and then use emerge --depclean
Perhaps I should try this procedure on my home gentoo box first.
Here are my USE flags:
X aac aim alsa ao bash-completion bdf branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb
cdparanoia cdr cpudetection djvu emacs encode exif firefox flac
foomaticdb gif glut graphics gs gtk ieee1394 imagemagick imli
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:04:54 Denis wrote:
> Perhaps I should try this procedure on my home gentoo box first.
>
> Here are my USE flags:
>
> X aac aim alsa ao bash-completion bdf branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb
> cdparanoia cdr cpudetection djvu emacs encode exif firefox flac
>
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:04:54 Denis wrote:
>
>> Perhaps I should try this procedure on my home gentoo box first.
>>
>> Here are my USE flags:
>>
>> X aac aim alsa ao bash-completion bdf branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb
>> cdparanoia cdr cpudetection djvu emac
> Let us know what blows up. ;-)
>
> Dale
Nothing blew up ;-) I was successful removing X, downgrading, and
getting X working again with xorg-server-1.5.3 and libxcb-1.1
FYI, the working package.mask file for this operation is:
>=x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5
>=x11-libs/libX11-1.2
>=x11-libs/libxcb-1
Denis wrote:
>> Let us know what blows up. ;-)
>>
>> Dale
>>
>
> Nothing blew up ;-) I was successful removing X, downgrading, and
> getting X working again with xorg-server-1.5.3 and libxcb-1.1
>
> FYI, the working package.mask file for this operation is:
>
>
>> =x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5
>
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:50 -0400, Denis wrote:
> > Let us know what blows up. ;-)
> >
> > Dale
>
> Nothing blew up ;-) I was successful removing X, downgrading, and
> getting X working again with xorg-server-1.5.3 and libxcb-1.1
>
Have you tried "strace'ing" mathematica to see why it dies?
B
> Have you tried "strace'ing" mathematica to see why it dies?
>
> BillK
I ran an strace, but I can't make sense out of it. There's a bunch of
polling and trying to access unavailable resources, from what I can
see... The file is huge, but here is the tail end of it:
Denis wrote:
>> Have you tried "strace'ing" mathematica to see why it dies?
>>
>> BillK
>>
>
> I ran an strace, but I can't make sense out of it. There's a bunch of
> polling and trying to access unavailable resources, from what I can
> see... The file is huge, but here is the tail end of it
On 14 Oct 2009, at 17:50, Denis wrote:
... While some folks
here probably think this attempt foolish, I still think it was worth a
try, and I learned some new things, which is always good.
I don't think this attempt foolish - but I guess you're getting
desperate.
Having performed `emerge -
Ordinarily, I would also point to I/O errors, but not this time. I
have had this same version of Mathematica, 5.2, for *years*, on this
same machine, over several kernels and several Xorg upgrades, and it
was rock-solid. Not one X hang or crash. Ever. No error messages or
I/O warnings ever. Th
Denis wrote:
> Ordinarily, I would also point to I/O errors, but not this time. I
> have had this same version of Mathematica, 5.2, for *years*, on this
> same machine, over several kernels and several Xorg upgrades, and it
> was rock-solid. Not one X hang or crash. Ever. No error messages or
>
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