[developers] Load Grammar dialog bug

[David Brodbeck]

Forgot I was on the list, or I would have posted the original question myself. ;)

I tried your solution, but it didn't work...I'm still seeing the "not supported in font" errors.

It's not fatal in the sense that someone can still type in a full path to load a grammar, but it does break browsing the file tree in the load grammar dialog.


On further investigation, it looks like I introduced the problem on my Knoppix 6.2-based versions of the CD when I disabled prelinking.  (It was causing shared libraries to load lower in memory, blocking the LISP heap.)  It also didn't crop up on CDs I did based on Knoppix 6.0, which didn't use prelinking, so maybe I'm changing something else when I remove the prelinking info from the libraries.


On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Xuchen Yao wrote:

> I might have met this problem before when updating both to the test LKB build (April 2010) and Ubuntu. But the error specified below isn't a fatal one. Instead if you meet the following error, then I have a clue:
> 
> "Error: xm_string_get_l_to_r failed while converting xm-string resource"
> 
> The old post is here:
> 
> http://lists.delph-in.net/archive/developers/2009/001204.html
> 
> This can be solved by:
> 
> 1. Uninstall libmotif3
> 2. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DELPHINHOME/lkb/lib/linux.x86.32/ (or linux.x86.64)
> 
> Xuchen
> 
> On 2010-6-15 23:28, Emily M. Bender wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> David Brodbeck (maintainer of the Knoppix+LKB distribution) has
>> run into a bug that seems like it's come up before, but we don't
>> have the fix to hand.  Does the description below ring a bell
>> for anyone?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Emily
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: CompLing Help (David Brodbeck)<linghelp at u.washington.edu>
>> Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: [patas-announce] Knoppix+LKB Version 9 withdrawn
>> To: "Emily M. Bender"<ebender at u.washington.edu>
>> 
>> 
>> So, the new version is hung up on an old bug that's cropped up again;
>> the Load Grammar dialog doesn't let you browse for files, and gives
>> this warning on the console:
>> Warning: Xt:
>>    Name: Text
>>    Class: XmTextField
>>    Character '\57' not supported in font. Discarded.
>> Oddly, this worked in previous versions of KnoppixLKB, but that's
>> quite likely by chance, as I've run into it before in Ubuntu.  I can't
>> figure out what's changed to break it again.
>> 
>> Googling seems to suggest this is a bug in multibyte character
>> handling in older versions of Motif
>> (http://bugs.motifzone.net/long_list.cgi?buglist=1257).  I installed a
>> newer version, but it made no difference, which didn't surprise me
>> since I don't think LKB is relying on the system installation of Motif
>> at runtime.
>> 
>>   

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David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington