Re: [Jed-users-l] linux strangeness

[Henry Harpending <harpend@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:09:11 -0400 you wrote:

> Henry Harpending <harpend@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I use a Mac but do most day to day stuff with linux in a virtual
> > machine.  Jed works flawlessly on the Mac, and it used to work
> > flawless in linux until the current round of distribution versions
> > (Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11.04).  Now things are strange all over.
> 
> What versions of jed are you using?  You can get this info using
> 
>    jed --version

On the Mac, 99.18.  On the linuxes 99.19 as furnished by the
distributions.


> 
> > In Fedora. Jed and Xjed work fine, with no slowdown, BUT each takes
> > 20 seconds to load.  Windows immediately pop up, then just sit
> > there for a long time until the program starts.  In Python mode ^C#
> > and ^C3
> 
> This sounds to me like your /etc/hosts file may need tweaked.  jed
> uses the hostname for a number of purposes such as file locking, etc.
> What do your /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf files look like?
> 

Yes!

The original Fedora /etc/hosts had two lines, the first and last here.
I added the middle two lines and now Jed and Xjed work like jet planes.

127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1               localhost
127.0.0.1               fedora15.kde
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6


> [...]
> > So then I decided to recompile from source.  Compilation of Jed went
> > all right but compilation of Xjed failed with a missing
> > <X11/Intrinsic.h>.  I don't know enough to even start trying to
> > track this down.
> 
> You need to install the X11 development libraries.  On debian,
> X11/Intrinsic.h is in the libxt-dev package.

Thanks, will do that.  Distributions these days are quite good a
pulling in dependencies and I have come to trust them.  No more!

BTW my problem with pymode.sl was fixed just by reinstalling jed from
the distribution.  Funny since I could see nothing wrong with
pymode.sl after a long time staring at it, and I have never fooled
with it.  Gremlin perhaps....

Many thanks for your quick and correct support.

Henry Harpending


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