Re: frontend crashing
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- Subject: [mg67941] Re: frontend crashing
- From: "emyl" <kwcpsn at yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:52:01 -0400 (EDT)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
The problem is now solved. I give the solution below in case it may
be useful to someone else.
I'd like to thank Bruce Miller from Wolfram Technical Support for
giving me the clue I was badly needing: a stack trace.
The trace showed the following call,
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.dir", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
As it turns out, now Xorg places its "locale" directory in
/usr/share/X11/
instead of
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/.
I had previously had exactly the same problem with the file rgb.txt.
A symlink worked the miracle. I hope Debian developers (any of you
reading this?) will include the needed symlinks in the distribution.
Thanks,
Emyl
emyl wrote:
> I use Mathematica 5.0 for Linux. After a recent nasty hard drive crash
> I had to reinstall both the OS (kernel 2.6.16.20, Debian "etch") and
> Mathematica. Since then, the frontend crashes every time I click on a
> menu item that opens a dialog window. For example, if I click on
> Files->Open to open a notebook, or Files->SaveAs to save it, or
> Help->HelpBrowser, etc.
>
> I'd appreciate any help to fix this problem.
>
> Emyl