Re: gdnc not starting, window manager, startup-0.14.1

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 21 Feb 2006, at 20:54, Marko Riedel wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> after I got my font problems sorted out I started some  
> applications. All
> applications I start throw an uncaught exception, namely
>
> NSInternalInconsistencyException: unable to contact gdnc server -
> please check that the gdnc process is running.
> I attempted to start it at '/usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/gdnc'.
>
> However, gdnc is there:
>
> ls -l `which gdnc`
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 Feb 20 00:50 /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/gdnc
>
> Why won't gdnc start? This is not a big problem, however, as I can  
> start
> it by hand or in .bashrc. I don't understand why an application  
> would be
> unable to start it.

Me neither ... unless you are on BSD.  I know some version of BSD  
(but I forget which) had problems with it's thread library.  However,  
I thought we had managed a workaround to that bug.

Anyway, I think it's more likely that the program was launched but  
immediately crashed than that it was not launched.

I'd be very grateful if you would try to track down what happened ...  
it may have written some messages to syslog that you can look at.
If not, I know it's tedious, but you could try hacking gdnc.m to use  
fopen()/fprintf()/fflush() to log dbug lines to a file and trace  
exactly where it crashes.

Sorry I can't be more help.