Path: news.cs.au.dk!news.net.uni-c.dk!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.augsburg.net!pschoenb From: pschoenb@solidsoft.iksys.de (Patrick Schoenbach) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Newbie problem with Mjolner BETA 5.1 on Linux Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:01:05 +0200 Organization: Solidsoft Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: solidsoft.iksys.de X-Trace: news.augsburg.net 962215252 19763 195.222.114.31 (28 Jun 2000 18:00:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.augsburg.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jun 2000 18:00:52 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12498 On 28 Jun 2000 17:53:12 +0200, Alf-Ivar Holm wrote: >pschoenb@solidsoft.iksys.de (Patrick Schoenbach) writes: > >> I wanted to try out BETA. I downloaded Mjolner BETA for Linux (glibc2.1) >> and installed it according to the instructions. But when I do: >> $ beta >> or: >> $ mjolner >> >> the program starts to load, but it gets stuck. There is nothing to see >> on the screen. >> >> I use SuSE Linux 6.3 > >Have you tried to use strace(1) to see where it hangs? (Warning: >Extensive output.) > > strace beta Thanks. It is fixed meanwhile. I indeed did that. /dev/zero was not world-writable, this caused the hanging. -- Best regards, Patrick -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- e-mail: pschoenb@solidsoft.iksys.de URL: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/5357/ PGP Public Key: Mail to pgp@solidsoft.iksys.de with 'pschoenb' as subject Fingerprint: 3C FB B0 A7 E2 C2 3B 2D 68 6C 66 7E B7 D5 C2 70 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------