Solaris 8 and LimeWire
 

I have installed the application, but it never seems to start. I get no errors and it creates some directories in the ./LimeWire directory...just no GUI. sdtproc shows it running and I am connected to the internet via a T3. Any Ideas?

Thomas Gainer

Count your blessings...
 

At least you have spawned a process. I get a segfault from the Java VM, in one of the X11 support libs, and the whole process crashes.

I'm running Solaris 8 (X86), and using the 1.4.2-b28 JDK and runtime. The system is patched up to date as of 09/27/03, so there are really no missing patches or updates for the system.

The actual error is:

An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0xDA0A14B5
Function=XtRemoveTimeOut+0x15
Library=/usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4

The function is the removal of a user-added timer, and is either being passed an incorrect parameter or missing parameter, or the library is pretty broken. I guess it's time to get truss running, and trace the calls to see what's what.

Could you post your Java version, in case I need to revert to a known working version? You can get the version by typing:

java -fullversion (assuming java is in your path).

Thanks,
rockkeys

Solved my problem...
 

In my case, I went and grabbed Java 1.3.1.09 from Sun's Java site, and installed that. Then I found that the segment fault I was seeing was caused by a bad patch to the Motif Libraries.

Sun's patch # 108941-56 causes many Swing calls in Java to fail, specifically the XtRemoveTimer call that LimeWire makes during startup.

The only cures for this problem is to revert back one patch level on this patch, if you saved the old patch data (I didn't). Or grab an old version of the library (/usr/dt/lib/libXm.so.4) from another system, which I was able to do. The library was from patch 108941-49, so we know that version works.

Once I replaced the libXm.so.4 with the old one, everything started working. I was able to get the LimeWire beta to connect, and have started using it. The internal media player also seems to work, and plays mp3 files just fine on my Solaris system.

I'm looking forward to getting the corrected patch, and to try the next version of LimeWire too.

Good Luck,
Rockkeys