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xtrs hangs with Hardy Heron

Asked by DELovelady

RE: bug 223098 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xtrs/+bug/223098)

I have been using xtrs for quite some time, and started using it last year on ubuntu, once I discovered that great OS! It was working fine with ubuntu 7, but when the recent upgrade to Hardy Heron was completed, I noticed that xtrs was broken.

The symptom is that xtrs will display its initial window, and then hang. No keyboard input is apparently accepted, including the F8 (= quit) key. Upon closing the window via the x at top right, the following messages appear on the console that started the session:
   XIO: fatal IO error 2 (No such file or directory) on X server ":0.0"
         after 3731 requests (3618 known processed) with 3 events remaining.

My research indicates that bug 97476 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xtrs/+bug/97476) was created in the early days of Kubuntu 7, when a similar-looking problem appeared but then vanished shortly thereafter.

What are my options to identify a cause/solution, and what help can I provide to that end?

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DELovelady (ubuntu-lovelady) said : 		#1

The author of the xtrs package has identified that the problem is related to sigio code in the newer Linux kernels.

A solution can be found at http://tim-mann.org/xtrs.html, which I've reproduced below. I hope this hels all who've had this problem.

If you are having problems with xtrs hanging with a solid-color screen during startup, especially on recent Linux distros like Ubuntu 8.04, delete the string "-DHAVE_SIGIO" from the Makefile, do a "make clean", and recompile.