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UltraMagnus
08-01-2001, 01:18 PM
Hey fellow *nix users. Quick question, I am running Enlightenment with Slack 7.1. when I exit out of X, I get a screenfull of the same two messages.
1. Convert! Unable to map files
2. PID could not get read
It displays the first one about 50 times to fill my screen until it hits my command prompt. Does anyone know what this means or how I can keep it from keep coming up? It seems like it's trying to kill a process or something. Just need a tad help. Later.
UltraMagnus
08-03-2001, 04:15 PM
Everyone else gets help in this place but I get no love? What's up with that? I guess noone knows how to fix my problem.
MandK_10
08-03-2001, 04:27 PM
Be patient, the people who can answer this question are probably out of the building right now. They will return your message when they come available.
I know it is frustrating. But nobody is purposfully ignoring you.
Mike
UltraMagnus
08-03-2001, 04:46 PM
Thanks...you're probably right. It just gets fustrating at times. My lack of knowledge, that is.
bdg1983
08-03-2001, 05:55 PM
hrrms... are those the only messages? there might be more info in the file /var/log/XFree86.0.log.
demetrius
08-03-2001, 05:59 PM
When you're in X can you take a look and see if you are getting error messages dumped to tty1? While in X hit CTRL+ALT+F1 and see what kind of messages are there. Maybe you can at least find out what the proccess is that is giving you trouble. Without know what proccess is giving you the errors its hard to diagnose the problem.
As demetrius posted, alot of times software under X, like the WM or Mozilla is a good example, send output to tty1, so when you logout of X, you see a hundred weird messages that look as if something's gone haywire. Most of the time these can be very helpful, if you can correlate the errs to a certain app you were running or maybe to the WM itself. Let's take the first one you posted:
Convert! Unable to map files
This could be related to a graphics app or to E itself trying to recognize a certain filetype. I know I've noticed alot of similar errs when running E or Blackbox and you don't have a 'theme' just right or are trying to get a certain graphics file to run as the background image. Occasionally I'll get one something like "bsetbg unable to map file 'backgroundimage.jpg'" or the like. This is just an example of course, I have no idea what the specific errs you posted are related to. Luck!