Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Unexplained Error

[derek indranet co nz]

Hi,
 thanks for finding this.

Can you report where the code failed. 

Maybe, pwlib can be changed so that it does more complete checks.
  So, the next time this happens, there will be no Catastrophic failure.

Derek.
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On 13 Mar 2003, George wrote:

> Thanks Damien,
> 
> It turns out that the permissions on the /dev/video directory had
> changed. strace showed that's where the error was. Changed the
> permissions and everything is fine now.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 01:42, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > Le jeu 13/03/2003 à 09:13, George a écrit :
> > > Operating System error
> > > Catastrophic failure, PProcess::Current() = NULL!!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Can someone please explain what this error means when I try to run
> > > gnomemeeting? Gnomemeeting has been running fine until tonight. When I
> > > tried to run it, I got this error. I know it must be a permission
> > > problem because it runs fine as root, but I don't know what permissions
> > > would have changed.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > It is probably a bug in the detection of devices in pwlib. Try to strace
> > GnomeMeeting to see where it fails, it will indicate what directory is
> > the problem.
> > 
> > > Thanks
> 

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