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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

address@hidden wrote:

> I looked over the internet, and I found something. I am running 
> texmacs from a sun workstation and the connectio is to a ubuntu 8.04 
> amd64 system. Sometimes I do it from my laptop i386 ubuntu 7.10 
> laptop, with the same results.
>
> And still have no ideas. The program displays well diagrams done in an 
> already made document, but crashes as soon as it needs to show the 
> pointer.
>
> Below is what I found.
>
> Peace,
> -Adrian.
>
> A: This problem seems to occur on Sun workstations that have
> different versions of the shared X libraries and server. That is,
> if you have the R4 libraries and an R5 server or R5 libs and an R4
> server, you'll have this problem.
>
> The solution is to get matching versions of the libraries and
> server. Everything should work fine then.
OK. For such problems, there is often no way that redoing
the install to obtain exactly the right config. Any other
hacking would amount to understand how and why the version
mismatch is leading to the bug, but it wouldn't help you to
solve your problem...