Re: gnustep making me crazy

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 03:28 PM, Kees Cook wrote:

> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:48:35AM +0100, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> > I can't really see how that can happen unless by some strange freak of
> > chance, gdnc
> > crashed, and some other non-gnustep process started using its port, so
> > everything
> > trying to connect to gdnc is actually talking to some non-gnustep
> > network process.
> >
> > You could try making sure that gdomap (and gdnc ad gpbs if running) is
> > restarted.
> >
> > If that fails, you could try running with --GNU-Debug=GSTcpHandle and
> > --GNU-Debug=NSPort
> > to see what data is actually being transferred between the processes.
>
> $ gdomap
> $ ps auwwx | grep gdomap
> me  14254  0.2  0.0  2532  840 ?        S    07:23   0:00 gdomap
> me  14256  0.0  0.0  1704  592 pts/4    S    07:23   0:00 grep gdomap
> $ gdnc --GNU-Debug=GSTcpHandle --GNU-Debug=NSPort
> May 07 07:23:35 gdnc[14258] unable to bind to port 191.0.0.0:0 - Cannot 
> assign requested address
> May 07 07:23:35 gdnc[14258] File GSTcpPort.m: 1615. In [GSTcpPort 
> -gcFinalize] GSTcpPort 0x80c8310 finalized
> May 07 07:23:35 gdnc[14258] gdnc - unable to register with name 
> server - quiting.
> $ gpbs --GNU-Debug=GSTcpHandle --GNU-Debug=NSPort
> May 07 07:23:51 gpbs[14261] unable to bind to port 191.0.0.0:0 - Cannot 
> assign requested address
> May 07 07:23:51 gpbs[14261] File GSTcpPort.m: 1615. In [GSTcpPort 
> -gcFinalize] GSTcpPort 0x80f1088 finalized
> May 07 07:23:51 gpbs[14261] Unable to register with name server.
>
> What's that stuff about 191.0.0.0:0 ?

It's the network address that the server is using ... it should be 
0.0.0.0:0 (INADDR_ANY)
The fact that it's not would seem to indicate something severely wrong 
with something on your system.
Perhaps the networking headers, perhaps the compiler, perhaps something 
else entirely.
This is *so* wrong, that the only thing I can think of to try to track 
it down is to
run the program under gdb and step through it line by line to see where 
things are going wrong.

> > > And some don't even build correctly:
> > >
> > > [nemesis@ghostship ProcViewer]$ make
> > > Making all for app ProcViewer...
> > > May 06 11:26:57 plmerge[7543] Parsing 'ProcViewerInfo.plist' - Parse
> > > failed at line 1 (char 14) - extra data after parsed string
> > > make[1]: *** [ProcViewer.app/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist] Error 139
> > > make: *** [ProcViewer.all.app.variables] Error 2
> >
> > That just looks like there is some bogus data in ProcViewerInfo.plist
> > try editing it to see.
>
> See, that's what I thought.  Here are the contents:
>
>   NSServices = (
>     {
>       NSPortName = ProcViewer;
>       NSMessage = procInfo;
>       NSSendTypes = (
>         NSStringPboardType
>       );
>       NSReturnTypes = (
>         NSStringPboardType
>       );
>       NSMenuItem = {
>         default = "Process Info";
>         English = "Process Info";
>       };
>       NSKeyEquivalent = {
>         default = P;
>         English = P;
>       };
>     }
>   );
>
>
> "character 14" in the error is the "=" sign.  :P
>
>
> Thanks for helping me out.  :)

Here, the problem looks straightforward ... the file should contain a 
property list, and doesn't.
If you insert a '{' at the start and a '}' at the end this should 
probably work.