Re: FVWM: is this a bug: what happened?

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:55:46 -0400

Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca> writes:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was working on my remote PC's hard drive which happened to be running
> fvwm2. Suddenly I could not ping my computer. When I walked to the remote
> computer the network connection was OK but instead of X I found the
> following messages on the text console. I don't know if these will be
> any useful but just in case here they are (fvwm version 2.3.32).
> By the way what is MFT? Thanks!
>
> find_context: bad context or modifier c
> find_context: bad context or modifier l
> find_context: bad context or modifier c
> find_context: bad context or modifier k
> [FVWM][ParseBinding]: <<WARNING>> Illegal context in line F6 FakeClick releas
> e3
>
> find_context: bad context or modifier r
> find_context: bad context or modifier e
> find_context: bad context or modifier e
> find_context: bad context or modifier e
> [FVWM][ParseBinding]: <<WARNING>> Illegal modifier in line F6 FakeClick relea
> se3
> [FVWM][ParseBinding]: <<WARNING>> Binding specified AnyModifier and other mod
> ifers too. Excess modifiers will be ignored.

These come from using the obsolete spelled out context modifiers,
like "click" instead of "C". Current betas allow them again, but you
would do well to remove them.

> /usr/local/libexec/fvwm/2.3.32/FvwmEvent: error in loading shared libraries:
> librplay.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You need to get the -R option into configure since you have librplay.so
installed in a non-standard place. Check the INSTALL.fvwm file for
instructions.

> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "#C0C0C0"
> Warning:
> Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background

Looks like Netscape trying to allocate every color under the sun with
a limited colormap. Ignore it.

> waiting for X server to shut down xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or
> KillClient on X server
> ":0.0"

Your X server wanted to die and it was waiting for xterm to go away?

>
> [nzanella_at_tulip nzanella]$ Trying to open MFT
> Trying to open MFT
> 010528 02:55:44 mysqld ended
>
> Trying to open MFT
> Trying to open MFT
> Trying to open MFT
> Trying to open MFT
> Trying to open MFT
> Trying to open MFT
> Trying to open MFT

These don't appear to be from fvwm.

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