Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:43:39 -0500 From: "Adam McLaurin" <freebsd@irotas.net> To: "Alex Ford" <abford@sbcglobal.net>, "FreeBSD-GNOME" <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: xchat v2.6.0 crashing Message-ID: <1131543819.15082.247122812@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1131542274.13092.247121026@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1131504138.16869.247088912@webmail.messagingengine.com> <2BF9EB59-78DB-49F8-A741-306E5E124DE3@ahze.net> <1131512023.67656.10.camel@workdesk> <1131542274.13092.247121026@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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It also seems that the xchat devs know about the bug, and don't really care: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1349574&group_id=239&atid=100239 Oh well. -Adam On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:17:54 -0500, "Adam McLaurin" <freebsd@irotas.net> said: > Hi Alex, > > Well, I enabled dbus and reboot (without modifying my ~/.xchat2) and now > the new xchat works fine. > > It seems they don't handle gracefully with dbus is not available. > > Anyway, thanks for the tip. > > -Adam > > > On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:53:43 -0500, "Alex Ford" <abford@sbcglobal.net> > said: > > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 21:57 -0500, Michael Johnson wrote: > > > On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:42 PM, Adam McLaurin wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > xchat2 v2.6.0 crashes for me right after the GUI starts up and it > > > > tries > > > > to connect to the server. > > > > > > > > > > > > I upgraded my xchat along with all the new GNOME/GTK stuff, but the > > > > rest > > > > of what was upgraded seems to be working, so probably xchat is to > > > > blame. > > > > > > > > Anyone else experiencing similar problems? > > > > > > > > I'm running 5.4-RELEASE here, if it matters. > > > > > > > I had this same exact problem after updating everything on my system > > yesterday. Running 6.0-RELEASE here. > > > > > I personally haven't seen this, but I have seen other people on irc > > > bitch about it. > > > It seems it has something to do with ~/.xchat2 config and if you > > > remove it > > > everything will work. Please file a bug with xchat dev people > > > > I also tried playing around with removing ~/.xchat. It only succeeded in > > letting the server connect box come up (as opposed to crashing right > > away). If I then hit the connect button it brings up the regular xchat > > interface and connects to an IRC channel (the default #chatjunkie, IIRC) > > and you can use it normally. If you checked that box that disables the > > server connect at startup, however, it still crashed the next time I > > attempted to run it. > > > > On a whim, having been hearing about more and more GNOME apps using > > dbus, I went and followed the instructions in the freebsd.org/gnome FAQ > > to enable it. > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q25 > > > > I rebooted and xchat started up perfectly fine. Now, I don't know if it > > was directly related, but I had only played around with that ~/.xchat2 > > directory, nothing else after the upgrading, until the dbus > > enabling/rebooting. > > > > Just my experience for what it's worth, > > Alex > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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