Hello,
I'm having trouble with a couple of x apps on my sid laptop. The first one I've been noticing for a couple of weeks is firestarter, the iptables GUI. Generally I 'su' to root and start it from an xterm: root@enlil:/home/kenneth/tmp# firestarter NETFILTER detected Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. Firewall script restarted Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkContainer' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkcontainer.c: line 726 (gtk_container_remove): assertion `container != NULL' failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkBox' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkbox.c: line 366 (gtk_box_pack_end): assertion `box != NULL' failed. I don't know what that Authentication Warning is about, I have no problem logging into X as root. I tried it & I get the same error. I think the immediate problem is with the CRITICAL errors.. I tried running it under strace & the end of the output was just repeating this: poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}], 4, 499) = 0 gettimeofday({1040347481, 810076}, NULL) = 0 read(7, "", 4096) = 0 gettimeofday({1040347481, 810225}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x541b, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}], 4, 500) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)--- SIGINT (Interrupt) --- +++ killed by SIGINT +++ The other problem (or symptom) is with xscreensaver. it doesn't output any errors without an strace, but with an strace a bunch stuff scrolls by until the following just repeats with a pause each time at the select()s (where it says Timeout). gettimeofday({1040338342, 620997}, NULL) = 0 select(5, [3 4], [], [], {4, 998898}) = 0 (Timeout) select(5, [4], [], [], {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1040338347, 623108}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1040338347, 623137}, NULL) = 0 write(3, "&\2\2\0\1\0\300\0", 8) = 8 read(3, "\1\1y\0\0\0\0\0:\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\202\2\223\2\202\2\223\2"..., 32) = 32 dup(8) = 9 fcntl64(9, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fstat64(9, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000_llseek(9, 0, [444], SEEK_CUR) = 0 _llseek(9, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(9, " CPU0 \n 0: 24"..., 4096) = 444 close(9) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 4096) = 0 time(NULL) = 1040338347 ioctl(3, 0x541b, [0]) = 0 ioctl(3, 0x541b, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({1040338347, 623932}, NULL) = 0 select(5, [3 4], [], [], {4, 999205}) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted)--- SIGINT (Interrupt) --- I notice some similar-looking function calls to the firestarter strace above, gettimeofday() and ioctl() at least.. they sound like they're probably pretty common, but just in case it indicates a shared library to somebody... I haven't noticed any other apps refusing to open. I'm really new to X, so I don't have much of a conception of which library files' version numbers would be of interest... and, unfortunately, don't really have a coherent question beyond 'any ideas what I need to do to repair these apps?' TIA, kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]