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From: parker@eric.mpr.ca (Ross Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R4 xrn (contrib) and congrats...
Message-ID: <2013@eric.mpr.ca>
Date: 10 Jan 90 01:29:27 GMT
References: <1990Jan9.120453.15352@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: parker@mpre.mpr.ca (Ross Parker)
Organization: Microtel Pacific Research Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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In article <1990Jan9.120453.15352@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Gary Faulkner) writes:
>I am having a problem with the xrn distributed with r4 (on one of the
>contrib tapes).  It displays
>article titles, but fails to display the selected articles contents. 
>Has anyone else seen this??
>I have temporarily went back to the binary I compiled under R3, but I'd
>like to have all R4 
>clients for consitency's sake.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>

I, too, am having a problem with xrn.

H/W: Sun 3/60 Monochrome, 8Mb memory, local SCSI disk
S/W: SunOS 4.0.3, X11R4, twm (R4), xrn (R4)
Environment: Standard X11R4 installation. Gcc 1.36 used. xrn installed in
	     standard location (/usr/bin/X11/xrn) with supplied app-defaults
	     file.

Description: xrn dies in XrmStringToQuark with a segmentation violation 
	     (i.e. 'Caught signal (11), cleaned up .newsrc and removed temp
	     files' dialogue is displayed) when the 'read group' button is
	     selected (A couple of article titles are displayed in the top
	     box).

Traceback from dbx:

(dbx) where
XrmStringToQuark(0x4c) at 0x4921a
CacheArgs(0x2361f8, 0x4, 0x0, 0x0, 0xeffed3c, 0x64, 0xeffed38) at 0x3b457
_XtGetResources(0x2361f4, 0x2361d8, 0x4, 0x0, 0xefff510) at 0x3b4eb
_XtCreate(0x844a3, 0x0, 0x84178, 0xc52e4, 0xb8854, 0x2361d8, 0x4, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) at 0x2f481
_XtCreateWidget() at 0x2f875
XtCreateWidget(0x844a3, 0x84178, 0xc52e4, 0x2361d8, 0x4) at 0x2f901
XawDiskSourceCreate() at 0x176d9
redrawArticleWidget(filename = 0x23614c "/tmp/xrn16797-a02215", question = 0xae2b0 "Article 16797 in comp.unix.questions (58 remaining)"), line 1777 in "buttons.c"
foundArticle(file = 0x23614c "/tmp/xrn16797-a02215", ques = 0xae2b0 "Article 16797 in comp.unix.questions (58 remaining)", artNum = 16797), line 1992 in "buttons.c"
artNextFunction(widget = (nil), client_data = (nil), call_data = (nil)), line 2915 in "buttons.c"
artNextUnreadFunction(widget = (nil), client_data = (nil), call_data = (nil)), line 2968 in "buttons.c"
switchToArticleMode(0x9b058, 0xefff648), line 1843 in "buttons(0xd4b20, 0xd4b4c, 0xefffd7c, 0xefff987) at 0x44c35
DispatchEvent(0xefffd7c, 0xd4b20, 0x8, 0xb9114) at 0x31cbb
DecideToDispatch(0xefffd7c) at 0x321ed
XtDispatchEvent(0xefffd7c) at 0x32299
XtAppMainLoop(0xb6e48) at 0x32511
XtMainLoop() at 0x324ef
main(argc = 1, argv = 0xefffe40, 0xefffe48), line 232 in "xrn.c"


Any help would be appreciated. If the original poster has recieved any info
about this problem, I'd appreciate a note about it, as I *can't* run the R3
version of xrn for some reason... (I get a 'Client is not authorized to
connect to Server' error).


Thanks a lot!

BTW... Congratulations to those in the X Consortium... This software (other
than xrn breaking!) is *SLICK*! The R4 server is blindingly fast, and built
much easier than the R3 version.

You guys all deserve large raises.


Ross

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