From: gnuwin32 AT niteroi DOT gsfc DOT nasa DOT gov (GNU Win32) Subject: Re: Nedit freezes up 17 May 1998 14:49:18 -0700 Message-ID: <199805171436.KAA26046.cygnus.gnu-win32@woodmore.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: pofmail AT pp DOT phys DOT uvic DOT ca Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi, > > I've installed Mumit Khan's EGCS 1.02 beta 19 > binaries for NT 4.0, SP3? > along with the X11 binaries from > Arlindo da Silva's site and the MicroImages X server. > This all works very well, but to do any useful > work in this environment, I need a working X editor. > I downloaded the binary for Nedit-5.0.1 from Valery > Tulnikov's site, but have not been able to make > it work correctly. I can start the editor, open > files into it, cut and paste with it, and write > text into the menu items, but the moment I strike > any key on the keyboard with the cursor in the > text area (ie, try to actually write some text...), > my entire X session freezes up. The only way out > is to iconize the X server window and kill the > Nedit session from a normal NT window. If anyone > has any idea what's causing this, and how I can fix > it, I'd be very pleased to hear. It's frustrating > to be so close to a very useful work platform... > This is strange, I use nedit (from Valery's site) quite often and haven't experienced this problem. A few questions: 1) Are you using the lastest cygwinb19.dll from Sergey's site (http://www.lexa.ru/sos)? 2) Do you have valid /etc/passwd and /etc/group files? You can use mkpasswd (on NT only) to create these, e.g., mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd mkpasswd -g > /etc/group 3) Have you tried another X server, say x-win32 from Starnet? I have to admit that I get occasional SIGSEGVs but I have no problems creating and saving files. -- Arlindo da Silva dasilva AT alum DOT mit DOT edu http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/grads/win32/X11R6.3 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".