Re: [giFTcurs-user] Error when trying to run 0.6.1

[Göran Weinholt]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:26:08PM +0100, T. Veidt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> when trying to run giFTcurs 0.6.1 (with giFT 0.11.4 and 0.11.5), it 
> prints this error message to the screen:
> 
> *** GIFT-FATAL: Failed to load interface subsystem
> 
> NOTE:
> There may be another giFT daemon running on this host.  Check to see if the
> interface port (1213) is currently in use by another process.
> 
> *** Often times more information can be found in the log file or with 
> the -v command line switch.

This message doesn't come from giFTcurs and giFTcurs does not try to
start giftd.

> But there's no gift daemon running at the time of the execution, only 
> AFTER the execution. :-/
> 
> And the strange thing is that it sometimes works for no apparent reason. 
> (Though in this case it doesn't start the gift daemon automatically, I 
> have to start it manually before being able to connect to a network..)
> 
> Any ideas?

My best guess at the moment is that you have a script which starts giFT
before starting giFTcurs. Perhaps it broke when giFT's binary file name
changed from giFT to giftd?

Regards,

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