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PurposeDisplays a list of error messages. How to UseSelect File > Show > Errlog. A window similar to the following is displayed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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From this window, you can read error messages from previous Alias sessions. This could be helpful if you are trying to track a software problem. If Alias exits because of a software problem, the last twenty main menu commands are appended to the error log. The Product, Version number, build date, and host name are also included, telling you where the problem occurred. Information is appended to this log each time you run Alias, so that you can also see details of previous sessions rather than just the current one. Error Message TranslationsFrequently asked questions about the SDL rendererYou may sometimes see the following message in your errlog file when a rendering has failed or aborted: rendering error: exited with error code XXX Under such circumstances, you don't really know what XXX stands for, because it is just a numeric value without any explanation. The XXX values are system error codes (not to be confused with internal error codes). The numbers come from the man page for signals. To see the man page, open a UNIX shell and type man 5 signal. Add 128 to the man page's Value numbers to get the exit code numbers. For example, if you see the error message: rendering error: exited with error code 139 The value is 11 + 128 which equals 139. On the man page, 11 is a Segmentation Fault (SIGSEGV). See the following example of a man page file:
Warning: The signal numbers on an SGI machine may not be the same on other UNIX platforms. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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