SUMMARY: V2 Mailtool Problem

From: Tim Evans (tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com)
Date: Sat Jul 18 1992 - 13:20:43 CDT


Earlier I wrote:

>One of my users is having trouble with OPenwindows 2 Mailtool.
>When he goes to display a message, mailtool crashes with the
>following message in the console window:

>ld.so: Call to undefined procedure _ds_set_frame_xy for 0x2476c

>The user, unable to read his mail except with standard mail, is
>understandably anxious and both he and I would appreciate any
>help.

Thanks to the following for replies:

Eckhard.Rueggeberg@ts.go.dlr.de
welch@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Sean N. Welch)

Eckhard suggested:

>If the mailtool works for another user on that machine, check his .XXX
>files carefully. If not, get a binary from a machine where it runs. If
>nothing helps, install OW3
>

While Sean said:

>Could be a couple of things. _ds_set_frame_xy is in V2 libdeskset,
>so you could have a hosed $OPENWINHOME/lib/libdeskset.s*.
>
>More likely is that you are using V3 shared libraries with V2 clients.
>_ds_set_frame_xy isn't in libdeskset under V3, so that would explain
>the "undefined procedure" message. If you still have the V2 libraries,
>set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point at them.
>
>If neither of these are the case, the obvious suggestion is to upgrade
>to V3. It's a much better release, and mailtool in particular has some
>interesting expanded functionality.

Since the user in question has an other need to run Openwin2, setting
the correct LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems to be the way to go. (We automount
Openwin from servers.)

Incidentally, as an experiment, I copied V3 mailtool into the V2
directory and had the user try it. It works pretty much OK,
except for complaining about missing files to support the
new mailtool features (attachments, audio, etc.)

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