Suspected xtrans/xcompmgr/xserver clash

[Jeremy Kolb]

I did this two days ago, I rechecked out xtrans (saying "3 weeks ago")
and then I recompiled X11 and xserver. Then it worked.

Jeremy

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 11:01 +0200, Christoffer Olsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed the fd.o xserver last night, and it works great (except that
> GNOME doesn't seem to find any XKB, is that unimplemented, or my fault?
> If someone could elaborate on that, I'd be glad too.), although the
> favorite part - xcompmgr - won't work.
> 
> I suspect this is due to version clashes with the CVS trees. I read in
> the archive for this mailing list that a problem I had was related to "a
> broken xtrans merge", and that I was supposed to check out xtrans that
> was a week old. Since it was a couple of weeks ago I think, I checked
> out "a month ago". The xserver was recompiled, and it ran perfectly.
> Remind you, all other xserver parts were compiled with all the newest
> (botched?) xtrans stuff, although I don't know what uses them.
> 
> Now, I tried starting xcompmgr. I haven't read that it has to be started
> at a particular time in the run, but I tried starting it directly from
> an Xterm, and from within GNOME (as root, it didn't like the libraries
> as user for some reason that I haven't figured out). 
> 
> I started it this way: 
> # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/fdo/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/fdo/bin/xcompmgr
> _X11TransOpen: Unable to find transport for local
> Can't open display
> 
> ...and it wouldn't start, as you can see. Now, I suspect this being due
> to the xtrans stuff, as the error is, precicely, X11Trans related. Since
> I just compiled the server with the older xtrans stuff, I decided to try
> the released library (0.1), since recent CVS made the server stop
> working.
> 
> So, if I am right, and the problems are because of xtrans, I just need
> someone to verify a date where everything works perfectly, so I can
> check out CVS from there. Trying-and-failing is a bit time-taking, due
> to recompiling the entire Xserver module every time. 
> 
> Oh, and if someone has a completely different solution that works better
> or as well, I'm happy with that too:)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Christoffer
> 
> 
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