Re: XChat 1.9.4 Crash

["Austin T." <purpleflux@system78.com>]

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:08, The Matt wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:48, Lloyd Williams wrote:
> > On 08 Nov 2002 09:15:58 -0700
> > The Matt <thompsma@colorado.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > I recently installed XChat 1.9.4 from xchat-1.9.4-0xc.i386.rpm.  The
> > > installation went smoothly with no problem.  But, when I try to
> > > start xchat I get this:
> > > 
> > > > xchat
> > > 
> > > ** (xchat:31575): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font Lucida
> > > Sans 10
> > > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > > 
> > > I've searched the mailing list archives and there doesn't seem to be
> > > a similar problem.  I do, of course, have Lucida Sans 10 on my
> > > system (RH 8.0) and it is my Application Font, Desktop Font, and
> > > Window Title Font in the Font Preferences dialog (I like it).
> > > 
> > > So, is there a way to start xchat to bypass this problem?  Or is
> > > there something else wrong?
> > > 
> > 
> > The font warning is just a warning, it'll fall back on a default font.
> > RH 8.0 comes with perl 5.8, which xchat 1.9.4 has problems with. You
> > can either download the source and patch, or wait for some new
> > binaries. Or possibly move the perl.so plugin from
> > /usr/lib/xchat/plugins/ if you don't need perl support.
> 
> Hmm...that's a problem.  There is no /usr/lib/xchat/.  And, according to
> the RPM, it installs absolutely nothing in /usr/lib/xchat/.  Also, there
> are no .so's in ~/.xchat.  I don't need perl support, so I have no
> problem moving it...if I could find it.
> 
> Did I do something wrong in installing the RPM to not get
> /usr/lib/xchat/?  I did an rpm -Fvh to install over the old version
> (1.8) that I had.
> 
> Matt Thompson

My perl.so is in /usr/local/lib/xchat/plugins/ instead of /usr/lib/xchat
though admittedly this is installed from source instead of the binary
rpm.

--Austin



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