Here are a couple of things to check: - XAllocColorCells works with a PseudoColor visual. You may be running in TrueColor. Use xdpyinfo to find out. (grep for Color) - If you are in PseudoColor mode, you might not have enough free colors left. You might want to start a plain X session (no netscape etc) with a window manager like fvwm or twm. If you are familiar with vnc, you can start a vncserver in PseudoColor mode using the -cc 3 option. You may also want to modify xstartup (in your .vnc directory) to invoke a simpler xinitrc which starts fvwm or twm. -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Avedissian Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 11:43 AM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] reaction-diffusion program I'm trying to run a reaction-diffusion modeling program. Below is the link to the tarball. I was able to install it after editing the makefile (added -LX11R6 to the LIBS section, per generic instructions I found on a google search for the error message I got when make failed.) Here's the current problem: When I try to run the program with the sample parameters given in the readme.txt, I get the error message, "bad status from XAllocColorCells Segmentation fault" Note: I get occasional segmentation faults, possibly due to a flaky power supply. Those seem to be less frequent since I vacuumed the dust and cat hair out of the box. Here's a link to the tarball, in case anyone has the time or inclination to mess with it and/or offer advice. Oh yeah, I'm running SuSE 7.2. http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/people/faculty/greg.turk/reaction_diffusion/code/r eaction_diffusion.tar Thanks, Greg _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug