Re: no pfInit()

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Scott McMillan (mcmillan++at++cambridge.com)
Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:32:49 -0500

Try moving your shared arena base or changing its size and see if
that works (man pfSharedArenaSize and pfSharedArenaBase). There
are entries in the monthly-archives discussing this for Performer 2.0
...and whenever I run out of options that is the one I try.

Hope this helps,
scott

Robert D. King wrote:
>
> Help!
>
> I/we have reached a dead end && really need help.
>
> It is *most probably* something we did, but we (a team of four
> experienced programmers) have tried just about every thing we know
> to do with no luck.
>
> The symptom: our application (which until recently worked just fine,
> thank you) 'dies' in pfInit(). The problem arises when we add new code...
> it doesn't seem to make much difference where we add it!
>
> The diagnostic:
> 21596 PF Warning/Resource(12): pfOpenWSConnection - failed to open display
> "(null)" for pid 21596.
>
> We've checked limits:
> RLIMIT_VMEM: 9223372036854775807
> RLIMIT_DATA: 9223372036854775807
> RLIMIT_RSS: 1042644992
>
> We've tried:
> * backing out changes && going over them carefully.
> * carefully checking for null pointers and the like
> * running under CVD -- see the stack trace below
> * and so forth
>
> The stack:
> _X11TransWritev(<stripped>) ["Xtrans.c":918]
> _XSend(<stripped>) ["XlibInt.c":1429]
> XQueryExtension(<stripped>) ["QuExt.c":54]
> XInitExtension(<stripped>) ["InitExt.c":57]
> XextAddDisplay(<stripped>) ["extutil.c":105]
> __glXFindDisplay(<stripped>) ["glx_ext.c":216]
> __glXInitialize(<stripped>) ["glx_ext.c":908]
> glXChooseVisual(<stripped>) ["glx_cmds.c":1460]
> pfWindow::pr_openNewNoPort(<stripped>) ["pfWindow.C":3851]
> pfWindow::pr_openNewNoPortNoGfxType(<stripped>) ["pfWindow.C":1468]
> _pfGetGfxType(<stripped>) ["query.C":403]
> pfInit(<stripped>) ["pfProcess.C":405]
> main(argc = 2, argv = 0x7fff2ec4) ["main.C":729]
> __start(<stripped>) ["crt1text.s":166]
>
> We're looking for suggestions, strategies, and the like.
> Thanks 1.0E+06,
> Rob
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