Re: FVWM: startup problems

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_bae.bellcore.com>
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 10:32:17 -0400

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Cornelius Moeckel <moeckel_at_zeus.ph1.Uni-Koeln.DE> writes:
>
> hi,
> we need desperately your help !
> After compiling the fvwm2 with gcc 2.7.2 we had startup problems.
> We copiled it with the -g option on a HP-9000/735 running HP-UX 9.0.7.
> The Makefile.std has been used to coplile the files in FvwmConfig.
> After starting the fvwm2 the following messages have been
> written to stdout:
>
> [FVWM][main]: <<DEBUG>> Entered, about to parse args
> [FVWM][main]: <<DEBUG>> Done parsing args
> [FVWM][main]: <<DEBUG>> Installing signal handlers
> [FVWM][main]: <<DEBUG>> Setting up rc file defaults...
> [FVWM][main]: <<DEBUG>> Running config_command...
> [FVWM][main]: <<DEBUG>> Done running config_command
> [FVWM][main]: <<DEBUG>> Entering HandleEvents loop...
> [FVWM][HandleEvents]: <<DEBUG>> Routine Entered
> ....
>
> After this message the terminal is totally locked up!

Most likely cause, you have no $HOME/.fvwm2rc.
                                      ^

(Chuck, looking at "ReadFile()" in read.c, there doesn't seem to be
sufficient debugging (or error) output when the file to read is
non-existent.)

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Received on Fri May 03 1996 - 09:29:35 BST

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