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Date:      Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:04:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To:        Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Xlib: unexpected async reply
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811261403570.1605-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
In-Reply-To: <19981126115834.A55000@oit.umass.edu>

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Try to recompile your programs against tcl/tk 8.1x it's much faster and
has bugfixes.

Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com
-- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD.
-- http://www.freebsd.org/                        3.0-current

On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Greg Pavelcak wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 11:44:34PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > You may want to download the ports collection and compile XFree86 from the
> > ports tree.
> > 
> > Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com
> > -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD.
> > -- http://www.freebsd.org/                        3.0-current
> > 
> Did that this morning, but the problem described below persists,
> except I no longer get any Xlib messsage. Maybe I have a Tcl/Tk
> problem, since other "fancy" windows, like gv work OK, and you
> can add cbb, which depends on wish4.2, to the list of programs
> that give me trouble.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Greg Pavelcak wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm posting here because I run -current, but I'm not quite sure
> > > what information is relevant to my problem.
> > > 
> > > I installed 3.0 plus X from the Walnut Creek CD-Rom; then
> > > immediately cvsup-ed and built world and elf-kernel (sources from
> > > 11/21). All this seemed to go well. I also installed fvwm2 as
> > > window manager. 
> > > 
> > > My problem is when I quit certain programs running in X --tkdesk,
> > > tkcvs, tkinfo for example--just about everything stops working.
> > > Specifically, although the mouse pointer still moves, neither
> > > keyboard shortcuts nor mouse clicks have any affect. Furthermore,
> > > focus does not follow the mouse. So, I quit X with
> > > ctl/alt/backspace and see the message:
> > > 
> > > Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0xe08)
> > > 
> > > on the console (though the number changes).
> > > 
> > > I seem to be able to open and close xterms without a problem.
> > > 
> > > Any insight on this would be appreciated.
> > > 
> > > Greg
> > > 
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> > > 
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