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From: claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.windows.x
Subject: "bad screen number"
Date: 7 Feb 1997 14:04:58 -0600
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I can't get Wish to go.
The proximate symptom is an "application-specific initialization
failed: bad screen number '0'" diagnostic. This amounts to a
report that
ScreenCount(XOpenDisplay($DISPLAY))
is zero (!). This is an incredible nuisance, 'cause, beside be-
ing up against the usual deadlines, the darn thing was doing
fine up until the latest re-generation. I promise I didn't
change anything; I was just doing disk hygiene on my FreeBSD box,
and innocently commanded "make clean; make" in a directory that
shouldn't have changed. The environment has been quiet, too; no
new versions of X, no new compilers, just a mostly-idle machine
that was happy one minute, and Screen-less the next.
Details: I get the same symptom with Tk4.1, 4.2, and 8.0. I'm
running 2.1.6-RELEASE of FreeBSD. It looks most like some kind
of incompatibility between the Xlib.h and the -lX11 for the def-
inition of Display, but I know of no changes in those, and
certainly none that should affect my sources. Binaries (xterm,
...) from before the cataclysm all do fine; I don't think it's
a misconfiguration of my X server. I've tried the usual range
of possibilities for DISPLAY: ":0.0"; "unix:0.0"; "$HOSTNAME:0.0";
...
Any clues? Anyone?
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