Re: segfault on alpha

[Richard G. <rg...@ta...>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Andrew A. Gill wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Richard Guenther wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Andrew A. Gill wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to get glame to run on my DEC Alpha, but I keep
> > > getting a segfault.  A little poking led me to this line:
> > >
> > > 	glade_register_widget(gtk_knob_get_type(), gtk_knob_glade_new, NULL, NULL);
> > >
> > > And further, the function gtk_knob_get_type() is returning the
> > > value of 538227104.  I'm not sure if that's a valid value, but
> > > it looks as if it's within the uint data range.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any idea?
> >
> > This could be an alpha problem with libglade? You may want to disable
> > glade support by, err, changing config.h (HAVE_LIBGLADE).
>
> OK.  Now it doesn't segfault.  But now it complains about the
> swap file:
>
> 	ERROR: Unable to open swap: No such file or directory
>
> Sigh.  How do I make a swapfile?

Uh. Suppose you're starting glame, not cglame, it should create one for
you - in fact it should pop up the preferences dialog the first time you
start glame and on such errors, too.

For cglame you need to run cglame -c /path/to/swap to create the swapfile.

Hope this helps,

Richard.

> > You're using glame-1.0.1, don't you?
>
> Nope. CVS.
>
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