Re: [Bug-XBoard] Xboard crashes immediately

[Tim Mann]

xboard is a somewhat old fashioned program that generally requires a
command-line argument to tell it the main thing you want it to do.  You
can't always start it with no arguments and set everything from the GUI.
If you give xboard no arguments, by default it thinks you want to play
chess against GNU Chess and that you have GNU Chess installed under the
name "gnuchessx".  Maybe you wanted to do something else with xboard, or
maybe you have GNU Chess installed under a different name.

Also see: http://tim-mann.org/xboard/FAQ.html#[C.22]

By the way, most Linux distributions package both xboard and GNU Chess,
so you probably didn't need to build it from source.

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:10:31 -0500, Jan Dewitt <address@hidden> wrote:
> All of the install procedures went OK.  I used the following command set
> as recommended on Tim's page:
> 
>     gzip -cd xboard-*.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
>     cd xboard-*/
>     ./configure --prefix=$HOME
>     make
>     make install
> 
> When I run xboard, it crashes immediately, and I get the following error 
> windows:
> 
> Fatal Error - Error writing to first chess program; Broken pipe
> 
> Fatal Error 2 - Failed to start the first chess program gnuchessx on 
> localhost; gnuchessx; no such file or directory
> 
> Fatal Error 3 - Error writing to first chess program; Broken pipe
> 
> Fatal Error 4 - Error writing to first chess program; Broken pipe
> 
> Fatal Error 5 - Error writing to first chess program; Broken pipe
> 
> I'm a total linux newbie, so I'm sure it's operator error on my part, but if 
> you could help me out I would appreciate it.
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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