Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7
- From: Terry Doucet <doucet427@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 11:32:21 -0400
Duc,
I am very old.
Sometimes things work; sometimes they don't.Glad you got it going.
Terry
> From: duc.do@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 11:25:48 -0400
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7
>
> After more than a week of pounding on the problem on our own, and another
> week after getting some hints from this list in trying to solve our
> Hummingbird problem, now, the rest of the story.
>
> Circumstantial evidences point to the Windows 7 personal firewall as the
> source of our problems so we had to rule it out conclusively. After much
> groveling with the corporate IT demi-gods they relented and allowed us to
> completely disable it. Turned out the firewall was not the problem, but it
> was necessary to prove it conclusively.
>
> Terry Doucet's suggestion of trying HH1011 is a godsend, and a curse!
>
> We applied the suggested changes, and not only that didn't fix our problem on
> Win 7, it broke what was running fine on Win XP! But the error messages when
> we tried to run this script file (/usr/fox/bin/VT100.script) slowly point the
> way to a shell variable being null'ed out by a portion of the fixes.
>
> To make a long story short, of the three modifications recommended by HH1011,
> only changing `locale_env ...` to the full path `/usr/openwin/bin/locale_env
> ...` is necessary to fix our problem. The first chunk of codes (8 lines to be
> inserted after the comment "# If Solaris") broke the script file horribly by
> exporting an empty DISPLAY shell variable.
>
> I know there cannot be that many installations out there running DM with
> Solaris boxes anymore, but I want this to be in the archive to help prevent
> future head-banging against the wall like we did for more than two weeks.
>
> Thanks to all who helped (and all who pitied us in silence).
>
> Duc
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of duc.do@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 1:18 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7
>
> Terry,
>
> I've checked out several HHs regarding Hummingbird, but missed this one. I'll
> try the suggested fix. Thanks for the helpful hint. ;-)
>
> (But our problem is really not a lock-up, just that nothing happens upon a
> mouse click save for that message in the message area.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Duc
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Terry Doucet
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 12:04 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7
>
> Duc,
> Can you check HH1011 to see if that is of any help to you. I remember issues
> with starting VT100 that may have been fixed with the HH.
> Terry
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