Re: Mathematica help crashes X-windows on Linux
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- Subject: [mg10466] Re: Mathematica help crashes X-windows on Linux
- From: mike@brazil.physast.uga.edu (Mike Mangan)
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 04:34:51 -0500
- Organization: The University of Georgia
- References: <68l42e$mgc@smc.vnet.net>
On 3 Jan 1998 05:31:42 -0500, Dale Harris <rodmur@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote: > >I'm using Mathematica 3.0 on Linux. Currently I'm able to crash my >X-windows server when I go to look up some information in help (I think >I was looking up some information on the N[] command). I use MetroX >3.1.8, on a Matrox Millennium card, kernel 2.0.32, libc 5.4.33. Has >anyone else seen this bug? Anyone have suggestions how I can get out >of crash without reseting my machine (the usual Cntl+Alt+F? doesn't >seem to work)? I seem to lose any contact with the machine through my >keyboard, the display goes black. I could probably kill the X server >if I could get to a shell, logging in remotely isn't really an option >(suppose I could get a dumb terminal for problems like this). I'll >probably go ahead and open a case on this with Mathematica tech >support. > >Talking about the Libc, is there any development in Mathematica for >support of GNU libc 2, if there isn't, there should be. For the folks >not quite aware of linux, the next stable releases will be using a new >C library (GNU libc 2), more information can be found at: > >http://www.imaxx.net/~thrytis/glibc/ > > >-- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dale >Harris <rodmur@csuchico.edu> PGP KeyID: E26EC5FD Chico State >home of the NCAA Div. II National Baseball Champs! >|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+| > I had the same problem. To fix it, use XFree rather than metroX. -mike