Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions. I did try downloading gftp and recompiling. The configure file complained that it couldn't find some things. The last few lines were checking for pkg-config... no *** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is *** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable *** to the full path to pkg-config. *** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config. checking for glib-config... no checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.3... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to glib-config. configure: error: gFTP needs GLIB 1.2.3 or higher I installed pkg-config and set the PKG_CONFIG variable. This time configure+make worked. But gftp still failed: tinah:/home/wdj/downloads/gftp-2.0.16 # /opt/gnome/bin/gftp gFTP Warning: Skipping line 221 in config file: entropy_source gFTP Warning: Skipping line 224 in config file: entropy_len (gftp-gtk:28835): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 4101 (gtk_widget_get_style): assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (gftp-gtk:28835): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 4101 (gtk_widget_get_style): assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed Segmentation fault Is this related to a nvidia driver problem? If not, does anyone know what the problem is? If it is a problem with the nvidia gforce3 chipset , can't I install the patch at http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0309.2/0447.html instead of recompiling the kernel? If so, how? (It doesn't look like a bash script to me, so I'm clueless, but it seems easier than recompiling the kernel.) - David Michael Mondragon wrote:
However, some odd things began to pop up: gftp (which I love) crashes. I tried to reinslall from the rpms on the CDs of the non-64 bit version of suse 9.0, which I also have. (I thought maybe the dvd disc was corrupted.) It failed too. xftp crashes. (The text-based ftp however works.) Another program I use a lot, kdvi (kde's dvi previewer for latex documents), also crashes:-(. I've recently been having problems wth kmail, and had to switch over to mozilla. I'm not sure if that's related though.
I've had similar problems, though I do not use these programs -- the only one I remember offhand was xscreensaver crashing [and taking X with it].
I know SUSE does not recommend this, but I fixed the problem in every case by downloading the source and recompiling. Also, switching to a 2.6.x kernel fixed a lot of strange crashes and kernel panics. If you're going to compile source yourself, you'll need to be aware of the following changes to the `./configure && make && make install` process:
* run `./configure --prefix=/usr/local --libdir=/usr/local/lib64 --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib64`
* after this, edit ./libtook and add "/lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64" to sys_lib_search_path_spec and to sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec
There is probably a way to do that last one automatically, but I've been too lazy to look for it ;)
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