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Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu: Re: A new pretest] Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 22:20:50 +0200 (MEST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021019071138.EGPQ10587.fep02-svc.swip.net@coolsville.localdomain> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035011707 24849 80.91.224.249 (19 Oct 2002 07:15:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 07:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 182npB-0006SZ-00 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:15:05 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 182ohy-0004rw-00 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:11:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 182nnN-0002ZC-00; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 03:13:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 182nlw-0002FW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 03:11:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 182nlt-0002F4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 03:11:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fep02.swip.net ([130.244.199.130] helo=fep02-svc.swip.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 182nlt-0002F0-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 03:11:41 -0400 Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain ([213.101.3.101]) by fep02-svc.swip.net with ESMTP id <20021019071138.EGPQ10587.fep02-svc.swip.net@coolsville.localdomain>; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:11:38 +0200 Original-To: drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu In-Reply-To: from "Richard Stallman" at okt 13, 2002 06:48:29 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0pre8] Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8579 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8579 > Can someone investigate this X bug in the RC branch? > I don't have any access to Solaris 9, but one can speculate. It sounds like Emacs is on another screen or visual. I assume you have set DISPLAY correctly (i.e. other apps work). Can you try specifying visual to Emacs? First do: % xdpyinfo and you will get some info (you can mail the output here). The first line is the DISPLAY value to use, recheck this just to be sure: name of display: :0.0 Then there are a list of visuals, like this: number of visuals: 2 default visual id: 0x22 visual: visual id: 0x22 class: TrueColor depth: 24 planes available colormap entries: 256 per subfield red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff significant bits in color specification: 8 bits ... Try each visual in turn by doing (see above, class-depth): % emacs -xrm '*VisualClass: TrueColor-24' and see if any of them give something useful. Also, if you can, try running the same Emacs binary on another display if you can. For example, start X on a different machine, log in remotely to the machine with problems, and run Emacs with DISPLAY set to the first machine. Does this give a working Emacs? Jan D. > ------- Start of forwarded message ------- > Envelope-to: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > Delivery-date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:17:43 -0400 > Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:17:38 -0500 (CDT) > From: "David R. Linn" > Reply-To: "David R. Linn" > Subject: Re: A new pretest > To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > Content-MD5: pVOlfw/63ZDQWq149/qsZw== > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 > tests=QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 > version=2.41 > X-Spam-Level: > > >> There is a new pretest available in > >> > >> > >> > > Sorry about that last useless message - I clicked "send" when I meant to > click "delete". > > Anyway, ... > Under SunOS 5.9/Solaris 9 on SUN Ultra 5 (SPARC v9) with SunPro/Forte C > v6.0 and otherwise standard Solaris 9 tools/libs, I had no errors or > unexpected warnings building emacs v21.2.91. > > However, installation failed because I do not (yet) have makeinfo on > this box. > - ----- > (cd man; make info) > cd /ufs/sys2/FSF/Emacs/21/91/emacs-21.2.91/man; makeinfo emacs.texi > sh: makeinfo: not found > *** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `../info/emacs' > Current working directory /ufs/sys2/FSF/Emacs/21/91/s9/man > *** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `info' > - ----- > > I'd like to suggest that we either ship the results of makeinfo in > the tarball or test for the presence of makeinfo in configure and > skip this step if makeinfo is not found. > > > In order to route around this problem, I put a symlink in ${HOME}/bin > from 'makeinfo' to '/bin/true' which allowed me to "complete" the > installation process. > > Execution of tty emacs (actually in a CDE dtterm with '-nw') worked > fine and more testing of new stuff will take place later. > > Execution of X emacs (using the XWS DISPLAY directly) failed badly. > I got a window with a medium tan area above a medium purple area > (the latter is the default background color for CDE on Solaris9) > with no text, no graphics, and no keyboard or mouse capability. > The mouse cursor *did* change to the up-right-pointing arrow when > it went into what *should* have be the toolbar and reverted to the > vertical "i-beam" cursor when it was returned to what should have > been the normal text area. I was unable to kill this (X) window > via keyboard or mouse (not even by trying the "Close/Alt-F4 action > in the window manager title bar) - I had to resort to sending > an interrupt via the parent shell's tty window. > > I tried this again with the --no-init-file flag but that made no > difference. > > Checking my build area, it appears I never actually built emacs v21.2.90 > so these problems may not be new. > > Obviously, debugging is needed but I'm not much of an X programmer. > What do I need to do next?