xmaple and Fc5 (maple 10)

[Joachim Backes]

Hi,

having the problem that xmaple (maple-10) does not run on FC5: it exits immediately.
maple-10 itself runs als CLI perfectly, but not as X application.

Did somebody make similar experiences, or did somebody solve this problem?

Any anwer is appreciated.

Regards

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[Ian Mortimer]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 07:04 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:

>  having the problem that xmaple (maple-10) does not run on FC5: it
> exits immediately.
>  maple-10 itself runs als CLI perfectly, but not as X application.
>  
>  Did somebody make similar experiences, or did somebody solve this problem? 
Starts fine here on FC5:  Maple 10.04, May 30 2006, Build ID 23314.


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Ian

[Joe Klemmer]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 15:22 +1000, Ian Mortimer wrote:

>  On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 07:04 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>  
>  > having the problem that xmaple (maple-10) does not run on FC5:
>  > 
>  > Did somebody make similar experiences, or did somebody solve this problem?
>  
>  Starts fine here on FC5:  Maple 10.04, May 30 2006, Build ID 23314. 
	Just out of curiosity, what is maple?

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[Rex Dieter]

Joe Klemmer wrote:

>  Just out of curiosity, what is maple? 
Commercial Computer Algebra System:
http://www.maplesoft.com/

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[Gérard Milmeister]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 07:04 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  having the problem that xmaple (maple-10) does not run on FC5: it exits immediately.
>  maple-10 itself runs als CLI perfectly, but not as X application.
>  
>  Did somebody make similar experiences, or did somebody solve this problem?
>  
>  Any anwer is appreciated. 
This is probably cause by selinux.
Try change the context of the .so files in your maple directory
using "chcon -t textrel_shlib_t *.so".
This is however only a temporary solution. Either you
have to create a module for selinux or report the problem
to the selinux team.
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[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On 8/10/06, Gérard Milmeister <gemi(a)bluewin.ch&gt; wrote:
>  On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 07:04 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > having the problem that xmaple (maple-10) does not run on FC5: it exits
> immediately.
>  > maple-10 itself runs als CLI perfectly, but not as X application.
>  >
>  > Did somebody make similar experiences, or did somebody solve this problem?
>  >
>  > Any anwer is appreciated.
>  This is probably cause by selinux.
>  Try change the context of the .so files in your maple directory
>  using "chcon -t textrel_shlib_t *.so".
>  This is however only a temporary solution. Either you
>  have to create a module for selinux or report the problem
>  to the selinux team. 
I'm having the same problem with xmaple, I have only the splash screen
even with SELInux disabled

Any help will be welcome since, I'm migrating some windows nodes to FC6


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[Alessandro Brezzi]

Hi Chitlesh,

2006/12/28, Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:
>  I'm having the same problem with xmaple, I have only the splash screen
>  even with SELInux disabled
>
>  Any help will be welcome since, I'm migrating some windows nodes to FC6 

have you tried to start the program from a terminal windows? You can
receive  more info about what is wrong.

HTH

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Alessandro Brezzi

[David Jansen]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:04:11AM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  having the problem that xmaple (maple-10) does not run on FC5: it exits immediately.
>  maple-10 itself runs als CLI perfectly, but not as X application.
>  
>  Did somebody make similar experiences, or did somebody solve this problem?
>  
>  Any anwer is appreciated.
>  
>  Regards 
I noticed that too some time ago. It turns out maple comes with 2 GUIs,
a default one that is written in Java and another (older) GUI which uses
Motif libraries. It's the Java GUI which is broken, because maple
includes an old version of the IBM JRE which doesn't seem to work with
Xorg X11 R7

Solution 1. Use the motif interface: 'maple -cw'

Solution 2. Install a newer JRE and make sure xmaple uses that one.
I tried this with gcj and SUN Java, but that didn't work (gcj crashed,
Sun Java had problems with fonts, lots of symbols went missing). So I'm
not completely sure if this is a real solution, I stick with the motif
interface for now.

David Jansen

[Rex Dieter]

David Jansen wrote:

>  On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:04:11AM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > having the problem that xmaple (maple-10) does not run on FC5: it exits
> > immediately. maple-10 itself runs als CLI perfectly, but not as X
> > application.
> > 
> > Did somebody make similar experiences, or did somebody solve this
> > problem?
> > 
> > Any anwer is appreciated.
> > 
> > Regards
>  
>  I noticed that too some time ago. It turns out maple comes with 2 GUIs,
>  a default one that is written in Java and another (older) GUI which uses
>  Motif libraries. It's the Java GUI which is broken, because maple
>  includes an old version of the IBM JRE which doesn't seem to work with
>  Xorg X11 R7 
For the record, maple includes *sun's* java, not IBM's.

>  Solution 1. Use the motif interface: 'maple -cw' 
IMO, the "classic" interface is buggy in many ways.  Avoid if at all
possible.

>  Solution 2. Install a newer JRE and make sure xmaple uses that one.
Works, that's what we do.

>  I tried this with gcj and SUN Java, but that didn't work (gcj
> crashed,
>  Sun Java had problems with fonts, lots of symbols went missing). So I'm
>  not completely sure if this is a real solution, I stick with the motif
>  interface for now. 
Just make sure to use a proper fonts.properties (some day java will use
fontconfig hopefully), and all is well.

-- Rex