Cannot Create base Frame Failure

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2 total messages Started by ehsan-ul gaffur Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:52

#2784

Author: ehsan-ul gaffur
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:52

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Dear OpenWindows Readers:

   I am running Solaris 1.1 (SunOS 4.1.3) on a SPARCstation IPX.  I have
compiled XView 3.0 under X11-R5 and have installed the new libraries in
/fuj/files/X11R5/lib.  My LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to the following string:

         /fuj/files/X11R5/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/lib

In my path, reference to MIT clients at /usr/bin/X11 appears BEFORE those
in /$OPENWINHOME.  So, here is the problem:  When I start OpenWindows from
my .login file, I get the error

      window: Base frame not passed parent window in environment.
      Cannot create base frame.  Process aborted.


The section in my .login file that starts OpenWindows looks like this

      .
      .
      .
      setenv XINITRC ~/.xinitrc.ow3
      setenv $OPENWINHOME /usr/openwin
      $OPENWINHOME/bin/openwin
      .
      .
      .

My ~/.xinitrc looks like this

xmh &

xbiff &

cmdtool &

clock &

olwm


I would be very grateful if someone could tell me what I am doing wrong.
Thanks in advance!


Ehsan-ul Gaffur
Systems Analyst
Biostatistics Center
Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Re: Cannot Create base Frame Failure

#2799

Author: Pond Scum
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:56

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gaffur@belenos.pci.upmc.edu (ehsan-ul gaffur) writes:
>When I start OpenWindows from my .login file, I get the error
>      window: Base frame not passed parent window in environment.
>      Cannot create base frame.  Process aborted.

/usr/bin must be ahead of $OPENWINHOME and /usr/bin/X11 in your path.
You're starting the SunView cmdtool, not the X version.

If you typed "which cmdtool" at a shell prompt you would have known you
were running the wrong one.

-Jonathan		hue@island.COM

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