From rossini@biostat.washington.edu  Tue Aug 31 13:47:23 1999
From: rossini@biostat.washington.edu (A.J. Rossini)
Date: 31 Aug 1999 05:47:23 -0700
Subject: [R] R --gnome segfaults on RH 6.0 with R-0.65.0
In-Reply-To: Alexander Volovics's message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:46:27 +0200 (CEST)"
References: <XFMail.990831114627.awol@xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <87pv042k2s.fsf@alpha.cfas.washington.edu>


>>>>> "AV" == Alexander Volovics <awol@xs4all.nl> writes:

    AV> I (just barely, as a non programmer) know the differences
    AV> between foo.c, foo.o, foo.h, foo.a files but I got carried
    AV> away (non thinkingly) by the error messages:

    AV>   Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkfont.c: line 174 (gdk_font_id):
    AV>   assertion `font != NULL' failed.

    AV> However what has `gdkfont.c' got to do with it in THIS
    AV> context?

This says that it couldn't find a font it was looking for.  

Gnome is pretty half-hazard.  It's nice when it works, but can't be
trusted -- for instance, out of 6 identically configured Debian
machines, I can run gnome-session on startup on 4, but I _always_ get
name-service errors (with fatal halts) on the other 2.    (Debian's
slightly behind, but problem and bug reports on the Gnome list are
still a bit too often for my liking).

Even though I'm using it as my default GUI, I'd trust gnome about as
far as I can throw it (the bits, not the machines :-)...  It's still
somewhat unstable.

best,
-tony

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[R] R --gnome segfaults on RH 6.0 with R-0.65.0
A.J. Rossini