rap script problem on slackware

rap script problem on slackware

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi

I'm trying to play the streaming interview realaudio file, but rap won't
work now that I've installed slackware. I can't see anything wrong with
the script and realplayer claims it can't open the display. But the
display environment variable is set in the script and this was working
fine on debian when I was using that. I got the realplayer RPM from
realplayer web sight and converted it with rpm2tgz and can't see what went
wrong. Xvfb is also installed.

Re: rap script problem on slackware

[Kirk Reiser]

Hi Jacob:  If you are using the old rap script then you will need to
change the device it wathces for from 7 to 9.

If that isn't the problem then you'll need to take out the >/dev/null
2>&1 to see what messages are being produced.

  Kirk

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Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061

Re: rap script problem on slackware

[Jacob Schmude]

I don't know exactly what you mean by that, but I did take the >/dev/null
out and got these messages, some of them seem like errors and some seem
like Xvfb isn't working the way it should.

RAP v2.0 -- use interrupt to abort
_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running

Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
already running
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
Failed to open your X display.  Please try setting your DISPLAY environment
variable and try again.

Well, I don't know why it thinks there's another server is running, I
double-checked that. Any ideas? Maybe I'll update my Xvfb and see what
that does.


On 2 Apr 2000, Kirk Reiser
wrote:

> Hi Jacob:  If you are using the old rap script then you will need to
> change the device it wathces for from 7 to 9.
> 
> If that isn't the problem then you'll need to take out the >/dev/null
> 2>&1 to see what messages are being produced.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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> 
> Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
> 
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Re: rap script problem on slackware

[Kirk Reiser]

That looks like maybe something else is running like Xfs or
something.  If you haven't rebooted in a while you might try that.  We
got the same type of errors on another users system and it cleared up
after a reboot.

  Kirk

-- 

Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061

Re: rap script problem on slackware

[Jacob Schmude]

A reboot is not the problem and XFS isn't even installed. Odd, I only get
this error when I'm a user. When I'm root, the RAP script loads Xvfb fine
but seg faults when trying to load realplayer. How would I give the user
the ability to connect to the Xvfb server?

On 3 Apr 2000, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> That looks like maybe something else is running like Xfs or
> something.  If you haven't rebooted in a while you might try that.  We
> got the same type of errors on another users system and it cleared up
> after a reboot.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
> -- 
> 
> Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
> 
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Re: rap script problem on slackware

[Kirk Reiser]

Jacob Schmude <jacobs@ncinter.net> writes:

> A reboot is not the problem and XFS isn't even installed. Odd, I only get
> this error when I'm a user. When I'm root, the RAP script loads Xvfb fine

I have seen this behaviour on one other system which we ended up
setting the xvfb server with the euid bit on.

> but seg faults when trying to load realplayer. How would I give the user
> the ability to connect to the Xvfb server?

This one looks like either the raconfig.tgz wasn't installed or at
least wasn't installed in the root home directory.


  Kirk

-- 

Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061

Re: rap script problem on slackware

[Jacob Schmude]

Well Kirk, the seg fault is in the script itself. I put the setuid bit on
Xvfb and it works fine now. When I run rap realplayer seg faults, but when
I run it manually like this:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
Xvfb :0 &
realplay &

I here the welcome sound. So now its just a matter of figuring out the 
script, I may need to write my own script from scratch.

Here's my shell specs from the control-x control-v command:
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-slackware-linux-gnu)

I think it may be a shell problem, I'll make rap use bash 1.14.7 and see
what that does to it.


On 3 Apr 2000, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Jacob Schmude <jacobs@ncinter.net> writes:
> 
> > A reboot is not the problem and XFS isn't even installed. Odd, I only get
> > this error when I'm a user. When I'm root, the RAP script loads Xvfb fine
> 
> I have seen this behaviour on one other system which we ended up
> setting the xvfb server with the euid bit on.
> 
> > but seg faults when trying to load realplayer. How would I give the user
> > the ability to connect to the Xvfb server?
> 
> This one looks like either the raconfig.tgz wasn't installed or at
> least wasn't installed in the root home directory.
> 
> 
>   Kirk
> 
> -- 
> 
> Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
> 
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