I just compiled and installed wine on my glibc2.1.3 system. Wine doesn't run anything and I get the error below. Searching the net/FAQ/HOWTO revealed only that a very recent glibc2.2 system is needed. Is this true? Thanks. Error:> wine sol.exeBuilding font metrics. This may take some time... fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np
Mark Swanson <swansma@yahoo.com> wrote in article <3AF848BD.7A23FD2B@yahoo.com>...> I just compiled and installed wine on my glibc2.1.3 system. > Wine doesn't run anything and I get the error below. > Searching the net/FAQ/HOWTO revealed only that a very recent > glibc2.2 system is needed. Is this true? > > Thanks. > > Error: > > > wine sol.exe > Building font metrics. This may take some time... > fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np > >The fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np is a red herring. It even appears when running programs "successfully". You might want to try using --debugmsg to see what IS happening. (See e.g. the documentation at www.winehq.com for the possible command line options) Bill
On Tue, 08 May 2001 15:27:57 -0400, Mark Swanson <swansma@yahoo.com> wrote:>I just compiled and installed wine on my glibc2.1.3 system. >Wine doesn't run anything and I get the error below. >Searching the net/FAQ/HOWTO revealed only that a very recent >glibc2.2 system is needed. Is this true?No. Many Win32 apps run with glibc 2.1.3 It's possible that some run with 2.2 but not 2.1.3, of course.>Error: > >> wine sol.exe >Building font metrics. This may take some time... >fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_npThis fixme happens also on glibc 2.2.2. In fact, more 'fixme' appear under glibc 2.2 ;-) Maybe your apps dies while trying to download font information. Or you kill it before it has finished (it can take easily one minute or even more if you have a huge amount of fonts in your X system) Try to wait 5 minutes. The cacheing of fonts should not happen again, unless you change your config. Gerard
g.patel@wanadoo.fr wrote:> Maybe your apps dies while trying to download font information. > Or you kill it before it has finished (it can take easily one minute > or even more if you have a huge amount of fonts in your X system) > Try to wait 5 minutes. The cacheing of fonts should not happen > again, unless you change your config. > > GerardThank you. This answers a problem I was having. What changes to the config would reinflict this delay? More fonts? -- C. The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost A Servant to Servants, 1914
On Wed, 09 May 2001 08:27:06 -0600, cacook@freedom.net wrote: <snip>>What changes to the config would reinflict this delay? More fonts?More. Less. Anything changed. Font data checksum is calculated and compared to cached font data saved in the config directory. (see XFONT_ReadCachedMetrics in graphics/x11drv/xfont.c) Gerard