Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:45:59 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@telerama.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Applix 5.0 on FreeBSD 4.2 help needed. Message-ID: <14963.9591.445039.989848@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <19099908@toto.iv>
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Christopher W. Aiken <cwaiken@telerama.com> types: > I posted this on the comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc news group and no > one was able to help, so I thought I would try the email group. > > I bought the Desktop edition of FreeBSD with Applix 5.0. I was > also sent the FreeBSD 4.2 4CD set. I installed FreeBSD 4.2 w/o > any problems. I used the pkg_add command to install Applix 5.0. > The Applix install took forever. It almost took as long to install > as the FreeBSD 4.2 install. I'd suggest giving VistaSource (the company that produced Applix) a call. I've found them to be fairly helpful, and have in all cases either solved the problem provided a workaround, or are still working on it (Getting Data to connect to Postgres 7.0). <mike > I fire up "X" and in an xterm window I issue tha Applix command. > I get a message box that says: > > Unable to open screenfont: 12 point Helvetia. > screenfont name: -applix-axhvr-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1 > Proceeding with the main dialog font as substitute. > > In my xterm window I get the errors: > WARNING: unable to access Applix fonts. > The font path being used by the product is: > '/usr/local/applix/axfonts/all_pcf' > If this is not appropriate for your display, restart, > specifying '-fp your_font_path' on the command line. > Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkgc.c: line 484 (gdk_gc_set_font): assertion `font != NULL' failed. > > Finally Applix comes up for use. If I pick the "spreadsheet" icon > on the Applix toolbar I get: > > axmain: signal Segmentation fault > > and Applix crashes tool bar and all. So I try to fire up Applix again. > This time I have a 20 second wait and get the following error: > > Binding TCP socket: Address already in use > Fatal: Cannot establish any listening sockets > Notice: Font server terminated: Sat Jan 27 11:31:25 2001 > Font server terminated > > It seems that when you terminate Applix it leaves a "axnet" and a "axfontfs" > process running. It seems that when you run Applix the second time it > doesn't know that the fontserver, "axfontfs", is running and tries to > establish a second one, which eventually fails with the above > "Binding TCP socket: Address already in use" error above. > > If I issue: " killall axfontfs;killall axmain;killall axnet" after I > close Applix then everything is OK for the next time. I have to issue > the "killall" commands or Applix keeps giving me the errors. If I > remember to issue the "killall" commands after each Applix session, > I never have any more trouble with it. > > Now comes the interesting part. If I shut down "X" and restart "X" > The Applix errors start all over again at the top of this email. > > Someone indicated that I need GTK installed. A pkg_info shows that > I have "gtk-1.2.8 General Toolkit for X11 GUI" installed > already. > > Can somebody help me out here? The Desktop edition with Applix 5.0 > ran me a cool $150US and I feel I got shafted with software that > isn't ready for production use. The people that use my system should > not have to restart Applix twice, and issue a bunch of "killall" > commands just to be able to use the Applix 5.0 office product. > > - -- > Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA > chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com > Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 & FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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