Re[2]: how do I find out why xchat crashes on win XP?
Bas van der Peet
Friday, December 12, 2003, 7:16:19 PM, you wrote:
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> From: "Bas van der Peet" <bas_van...@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: <xchat-...@nl.linux.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:09 AM
> Subject: how do I find out why xchat crashes on win XP?
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently switches from win2k to win XP. The problem is that xchat
>> worked fine under win2k but on XP it crashes immediately after opening
>> the main window (the serverlist is visible for a second or so).
>>
>> I tried running it from a console window to see if there were any
>> error messages but there weren't any. I also tried gdb under cygwin
>> but that results in a gdb segfault.
>>
>> So does anybody know why xchat crashes or at least how I can find out
>> and fix it?
>>
>> Oh yes some more info: I tried this with xchat 2.0.5b, 2.0.6 and the
>> unofficial builds at http://silverex.xchat.org/news/ but they all
>> crash.
>>
> Did you try changing the compatibility mode you run it in under the
> properties you get by right clicking on the filename? I'm sorry I can't
> help you more but I only run xchat in Windows 98SE.
Thanks for pointing this out. I set the compatibility to windows 2000
and now it works.
It still think it's weird that it won't run under "XP mode" but it
works now so I'm not complaining.
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Greetings,
Bas
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