On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Hello out there!
>
> I have installed lyx 1.1.5fix2 on my desktop an it works perfectly.
> Now I wanted to install it on my laptop. But I can't get it work. When I try
> to start lyx in the XTerm, I get the following message:
>
> "lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
> Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. If possible, please read 'known bugs'
> under the Help menu and then send us a full bug report, Thanks!"
>
> I tried it with the 1.1.5fix1 and fix2 RPM-files and also with the tar.gz -
> always the same result.
> Surprisingly, if I install version 1.1.4fix3 from my SuSE 7.0 CD-Rom (which
> file has 8 MB, btw), this version works!
>
> As you might have realized, my operating system is SuSE Linux 7.0 (with less
> packages on the laptop).
>
> Well, after this hard day, you are my last hope...
If your laptop has fewer colours than your desktop (8bit vs 16bit for
example) then there is a very good chance you are triggering a bug caused
by the use of the incorrect version of the xforms library.
Make sure the xforms library matches your glibc version.
There are a number of distributions that include xforms as an extra
package and include a version compiled for an earlier glibc version. For
SuSE-70 which uses glibc-2.1.3 IIRC you should ensure that the xforms
library you installed was called something like
xforms-0.8X-glibc2.1.tar.gz where X is either an 8 or a 9.
If you installed an xforms rpm then you may not see mention of which glibc
that xforms version was meant for.
Allan. (ARRae)
