knobmaker writes:
I installed the latest xephem on Redhat 7.1, and for a day all was
well. Then it started segfaulting and dumping core every time I tried
to open a planetary view, other than moon and earth.
John Perry writes:
Wow! I'm running Redhat 7.2. I ran xephem all over the place on
7.1 also without any problems. Now that I think about it, I have never had
I see the crashes on Redhat 7.1 as well. It's a timing problem, so
it depends on the speed of your system and what else the X server is
doing and so forth, but could happen on any Unix/X system.
Elwood knows about the problem and is working on a real fix, but I have
a workaround which fixes the problem if you're willing to build the
source yourself. It's a very simple patch (just change a couple of
lines in the saturn, jupiter and uranus views -- the mars view doesn't
seem to have this problem) which I can send to anyone who wants it --
drop me a line. Or I can post it if a lot of people are interested.
...Akkana
