From: gary@enigma.asd.sgi.com (Wizard of OZ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Does Explorer work with 8bit Iris Indigo?
Date: 6 Oct 1992 16:38:03 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <BvoqC3.M7v@bhpmhaw.bhp.com.au>, kempinsk@bhpmhaw.bhp.com.au (Peter Kempinski) writes:
|> From: kempinsk@bhpmhaw.bhp.com.au (Peter Kempinski)
|> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
|> Subject: Re: Does Explorer work with 8bit Iris Indigo?
|> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 22:38:26 PDT
|> Organization: BHP Minerals International Exploration
|> Lines: 38
|> 
|> bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
|> 
|> >	I'm trying to install 1.0 IRIS Explorer on an Indigo with a basic
|> >8 bit display and whenever I try to start it up I get:
|> 
|> >Prompt> explorer 
|> >User interface: killed -- Bus error, core dumped
|> 
|> We tried running explorer on:
|> 
|> IRIX ruby 4.0.1 11150233 IP6
|> 
|> 1 20 MHZ IP6 Processor
|> FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.0
|> CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.0
|> Main memory size: 16 Mbytes
|> Graphics board: GR1.2 Bit-plane, Z-buffer options installed
|> 
|> ... with very similar results, we got segmentation violation instead!
|> Apparently it should work on the hardware we've got.
|> 
|> >If not, any ideas on what I did wrong when installing it.  (FYI, I'm
|> >running OS version 4D1-4.0.1)
|> 
|> We have re-installed it 3 times and I am convinced it is ok!
|> 
|> >					Thanks,
|> >					Bill Bogstad
|> 

First, yes it works.
There are 3 common reasons why you are having problems.

	1) network problems. 
		Check to be sure that /etc/hosts has an entry for 
		'localhost' and it is 127.0.0.1 The address 127.1 is not good.
		Also check that your machine has an entry in the /etc/hosts file.
		Look in the file /usr/tmp/cxlog for any error msgs. Explorer uses 
		gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr() and these may be failing.

	2) install problems. 
		Did you install explorer.sw.links ? 
			This is absolutely required for explorer.
		Did you install explorer in other than /usr/explorer ? 
			if so, 'ln -s whereever_explorer_is /usr/explorer' 
		Did you use the -r flag for inst? 
			That doesn;t work right for explorer. Reinstall explorer.sw.links 
			without it. And be sure to link /usr/explorer as needed.

		The files /usr/lib/libcx_s, and /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Explorer
		should exist as links that are resolvable. If not, then reinstall
		explorer.sw.links.

	3) environment
		is the environment variable XUSERFILESEARCHPATH defined? 
		This is done automagically for the user that starts the window
		manager. If it is undefined, for csh users, do : 
			setenv XUSERFILESEARCHPATH `/usr/bin/X11/appdefpath`
		This command requires the window mgr to be running to work. 
		(i.e. it uses the DISPLAY variable )
	
|> Any help would be equally appreciated.
|> 
|>    /\/\     :  Peter M. Kempinski  BHP Minerals International
|>   / / /\    :                      Exploration Department, Australian Region
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|>   \/\/\/    :  E-mail  :  kempinsk@bhpmhaw.bhp.com.au

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