[ nedit-Bugs-1599359 ] Nedit fails to open in Ubuntu 6.10

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Bugs item #1599359, was opened at 2006-11-19 21:03
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Status: Closed
Resolution: Duplicate
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Steve K (steve_k)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Nedit fails to open in Ubuntu 6.10

Initial Comment:
I just installed Nedit 1:5.5-1-lubuntu1 on Ubuntu 6.10 (upgraded from 6.06).  My Ubuntu installation is all defaults with the Gnome desktop environment.

When I start Nedit from the shell or the Gnome 'run application' dialog, nothing seems to happen.  In the shell, the following appears:

X Errorr of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  70 (X_PolyFillRectangle)
  Serial number of failed request:  310
  Current serial number in output stream:  320

I thought installing the OpenMotif and LessTif libraries might be necessary, but this made no difference, nor did removing and re-installing Nedit afterward.

I will be happy to try or check anything else that may be of value.  Contact steve10k at yahoo etc.



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Comment By: Adam Williamson (adamwill)
Date: 2007-02-28 23:00

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I confirmed we have this problem in MDV and also built an updated package
based on today's CVS, and that does indeed resolve the problem.

I'm not sure the official nedit packager would want to go to a CVS
package, however, so is this a fix that could easily be isolated and
backported to nedit 5.5?

Thanks.

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Comment By: neognomic (neognomic)
Date: 2007-02-28 16:37

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I added the info.

I doubt that MDV will use CVS for a released binary but one never knows
... maybe.
Thanks for responding.

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Comment By: Thorsten Haude (yooden)
Date: 2007-02-16 20:45

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>From the MDK bug report:
>I am not sure if the nedit dev's will act on it. ...

Eddy fixed this a while ago, and we have to reports of problems with the
fix (or the workaround). Could someone please add this to the MDK report? I
don't want to create yet another account for a tracker I'll never use
again.

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Comment By: neognomic (neognomic)
Date: 2007-02-16 19:21

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I have apparently the same problem with Mandriva 2007.0.
$> nedit
[snip]
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  70 (X_PolyFillRectangle)
  Serial number of failed request:  343
  Current serial number in output stream:  353
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It also generates a lot of repeated lines of complaints[snipped part]
about not being able to use utf-8.

I obtained the nedit 32-bit binary from s'forge(thank you!) and it runs
A-OK.

Is this a lesstif related problem? 
Would the same issue occur with a build against openmotif 2.2?  How about
with openmotif 2.3? 


I have filed a bug report at qa.mandriva.com: Bug #28760.  Developers'
input to resolve this would be most appreciated.
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=28760

Thanks!


FYI:
The nedit that is broken was compiled for 64-bit OS.  System info, etc. is
in the qa.mandriva.com bug report.


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Comment By: Thorsten Haude (yooden)
Date: 2006-11-20 23:26

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See also https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nedit/+bug/57808

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Comment By: Thorsten Haude (yooden)
Date: 2006-11-20 23:25

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Copied from Eddy's comment on #1547211:

This appears to be a duplicate of bug #1030192, caused by
the 32-bit visual. We should have a workaround in CVS.

For now, you can try three things:
  * nedit -xrm '*visualID: default'
  * XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 nedit
  * compile nedit from the latest CVS sources

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