#221 Closing editor window kills nedit server

[Anonymous]

On RedHat 7.3 or 8.0 I very often get a problem with
nedit server simply closing down when I close one of
the open windows. It's a bit difficult to reproduce
consistently but to me it happens at least 5 or 6 times
every day.
I typically always start an nedit session using nc and
from there on use nc or ^O to open all new windows.
When the problem occurs I get the following error
message in the xterm where I started nedit session:
Error: XtPopdown requires a subclass of shellWidgetClass

Taking the hint from the news I have tried set my LANG
to en_US on RH8, but that didn't help.

The problem happens with released 5.3 as well as with
the latest CVS version.

[Shawn Walker]

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I can confirm this on two seperate RedHat 8.0 systems here.
It makes NEdit extremely annoying to use. I've filed a bug
report with RedHat, but I haven't had any replies from them
yet. I've tried the CVS version and even older versions of
NEdit like the 5.1.x series. My only guess is that there's
something screwy with the version of OpenMotif they're
using. Help?

[Thorsten Haude]

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Did you try a pre-compiled binary from www.nedit.org? Could
you post the result of
nedit -V
if that doesn't help?

[Shawn Walker]

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I'm trying out the binary from the site right now.
Unfortunately with that one I had to start it by doing:

LANG=C; nedit

I couldn't just start it normally, if I did it would crash
when I went to the open file dialog.

I will do the nedit -V even if the precompiled one works on
the CVS version of NEdit and let you know what I get later
today.

Thanks.

[Shawn Walker]

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This is the nedit -V output of the CVS version I built:

NEdit release of Oct 25, 2002

Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
Built at: Oct 28 2002, 10:00:00
With Motif: 2.2.3 [@(#)Motif Version 2.2.2]
Running Motif: 2.2
Server: The XFree86 Project, Inc 40200000
Visual: Id 0x21 TrueColor 24 bit (Default)

So far it appears that the precompiled binary works just
fine, which leads me to conclude that I was right about the
OpenMotif version they're using being b0rked.

This is what the precompiled binary gives with nedit -V:

NEdit 5.3
Jun 1, 2002

Built on: Linux, x86, GNU C
Built at: Jun 7 2002, 11:41:04
With Motif: 2001 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30]
Running Motif: 2001
Server: The XFree86 Project, Inc 40200000

Where can I get the version of Motif that was used to build
the precompiled one? I can rebuild with that and see if it
fixes it for me.

[Andrew Hood]

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We use and recommend OpenMotif 2.1.30
RH's web pages say it is in 7.3 Otherwise try rpmfind.
When all else fails you can search for the source and build
it yourself.

[Shawn Walker]

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I've been using the binary from the site all day, it appears
to work fine other than the LANG=C workaround which I'm
guessing is due to some bad local handling?

Anyway. I'll try getting OpenMotif 2.1.30 and compiling
their version with that to see what I get.

[Shawn Walker]

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Actually rpmfind.net lists OpenMotif 2.2.x for RedHat 7.3

Is there anyway to find out what in OpenMotif 2.2 is causing
this?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Thanks for the idea - absolutely right - I found OpenMotif
2.1 and rebuilt nedit on both 7.3 and 8.0 with it and have
not had any problems since...

[Andrew Hood]

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My mistake. It was RH7.2 http://www.kr.redhat.com/products/7.2/72utilcd_list.html
Someone with 2.2.x should compile with debugging enabled and submit a bug report to
http://bugs.motifzone.net/enter_bug.cgi

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Okay, I'm still seeing this no matter what verion of nedit I
use, especially if I open lots of files at a time.

[Thorsten Haude]

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There is a dupe at
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=639804&group_id=11005&atid=111005

(Mind the ampersands.)

[Yuriy Syrota]

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This bug seems to be reported in OpenMotif's bugzila (
http://bugs.motifzone.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1237 ). But it was
fixed in version 2.2.3.

[Thorsten Haude]

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Eddy, can you confirm?

[Thorsten Haude]

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Eddy, can you confirm?

[Eddy De Greef]

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Yes, this is fixed in OM 2.2.3.