Re: Afterstep: core dump after core dump...

[Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, jamesb.au@acm.org wrote:

> Has anyone had problems with the Afterstep package on OpenBSD 3.2?

What platform? I've been using Afterstep via ports since...2.6? Something
like that, I think. Never had any problems with it. Running on i386.

>  It keeps
> dumping core.  First I removed all the wharf stuff in
> /usr/local/share/afterstep/wharf (because it kept complaining about Balloon
> stuff or whatever and memory faulting), then when I try to use the menu
> items to change the 'look' Menu->Desktop->Look->Blah, it core dumps again,
> "can't alloc shadow color xxx, can't alloc this, can't alloc that... Invalid
> IconBox(xxx) ..... Done" Memory fault (core dumped).

Whenever possible, you should copy and paste the exact error message.
Providing as much information as clearly as possible helps those who
might be able to reply with something useful.

In this case, the first set of errors say it can't allocate the colors.
That is, you're running out. What color depth are you running? The second
part indicates an IconBox with coordinates outside your screen size,
I think. Maybe that's it. The various looks files I've got in
/usr/local/share/afterstep/looks all have pretty reasonable settings,
but look.AfterStep has:
IconBox                 -800 -800 -64 -1
so if you're running, say, 640 x 480, that's probably causing the error.

Does it core dump with all the look files? Just some? Just one?

Do something like `startx > xlog 2>&1` (in a Bourne shell derivative),
then give us the exact errors, especially the lines immediately
preceding the core dump.

[ Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>                2003.11.02/00:18:19 PST ]
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