Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:24:51 +0200 From: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: freebsd@celestial.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl-tk no longer working Message-ID: <40D7FAE3.5020904@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20040621170833.GA22689@alexis.mi.celestial.com> References: <40D7035A.2020302@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20040621170833.GA22689@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
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Bill Campbell wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > >>Hi list, >> >>I rolled my own perl-tk script for adding/removing users on our cluster >>and it has been running fine for some years now. >>But when i wanted to use it today, it died with: > > > My SWAG is that you've updated perl recently, but not updated the perl::Tk > modules. Running two versions of perl on the same machine is possible (we > do it under the OpenPKG.org packagement system all the time), but can > easily lead to problems like this. > > >>root@antsrv1 [~] # usrmgr/usrmgr.pl >>[the usual messages about unused variables] >>X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) >> Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) >> Atom id in failed request: 0x1a6 >> Serial number of failed request: 12 >> Current serial number in output stream: 15 >> >>I have no clue what this could be. Other X11 apps run fine. I am logged >>in via ssh -X. >>Versions: >>FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 >>p5-Tk-804.027 >>perl-5.6.1_15 Practical Extraction and Report Language >>perl-5.8.4 Practical Extraction and Report Language >> >>2 versions of perl? Is this ok? >> >>Does anyone have an idea? >> >>Regards, >> Heinrich Problem solved: It was not the perl upgrade, it is the X server which is to blame. I recently upgraded the Linux installation on my workstation and there seems to be a problem with xfree there. I did not get suspicious until i tried running the script under Linux and got exactly the same error message. Moving to another workstation with a different version of xfree solved the problem. --Heinrich
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