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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Sindi,
> 
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 22:42:05 -0500 (EST)
> Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com> wrote:
> 
> > I put together a temporary linux hard drive (using plip to transfer 
> > files) 
> > and was hoping to manage with just xvesa.tgz and bl2-x.tgz but apparently 
> > that is not enough to get xinit or startx.  What other file(s) do I need? 
> >  
> > Probably not xvg16.tgz or xfnts.tgz, but do I need all the others on the 
> > list for X?  xbin xcfg xlib xpm and most likely startx?
> 
>     I think you do ......

I did not - just xbin.tgz, and if I wanted icem also bl2-x.tgz and xpm.tgz 
(which icem complained that it needed).  I probably don't need most of 
xbin either, as it is 2.7M and Steven said ALL hte X stuff was about 2M.


> 
> > The idea is to attempt to install Realplayer 8 on various motherboards 
> > and 
> > cpus by moving the hard drive between computers until I find one or more 
> > than will not give me a segmentation fault, and then set up the full 
> > linux 
> > there (on another hard drive).  Should this work?
> 
>    I have been told by a local techie that segmentation faults occur when a 
> program cannot find a library (or something) that it needs to continue.
> 
>    If you are getting segmentation faults with RealPlayer8 maybe you should 
> be looking to make sure that all the libraries and other packages for X are 
> present, and that you haven't selectively cherry-picked from the full 
> packages
> but left something out.
> 
>    If I am wrong, please correct me Gurus !

I installed ALL of the suggested X packages on both of the other computers
and they still got Segmentation faults.  Other people also got
Segmentation faults on different computers.  Many of these were
Sparc/SunOs, at least one was another Slackware setup in i386.  I will
test this drive in the two computers where I got segmentation faults to be
sure it is not software related.


The only computer so far where it worked is the one where I installed only 
xbin xpm (probably not needed if I knew how to open an xterm without a 
window manager) and bl2-x.  Plus Opera and the packages required for 
installation to hard drive.  (Also mc but I doubt that is related).

Sindi Keesan


 > Regards,
>           Ron
> 
> 
>