Need help with naim. I dont get it.

LkNsngth · 01-09-2005, 07:58 PM

Can someone please tell me how to use Naim. Everytime i type in naim the Bash it says
assertion "value != NULL" failed: file "liaison.c", line 34 Aborted (Core Dumped)

then I type in naim --help and it doesnt say much. I would like to connect to my aim account this way. Pls help. And if it makes a difference, Im using CygwinX on windows.

twantrd · 01-10-2005, 02:48 AM

How did you install naim? As for the liaison.c file, I would take a look at line 34 and see why it fails there.

-twantrd

LkNsngth · 01-10-2005, 06:31 PM

what do you mean by look at line 34?

cowboy45 · 01-10-2005, 07:35 PM

open liason.c and go down 34 lines and look at the line of code... *shrugs*

twantrd · 01-10-2005, 08:35 PM

There are times when the STDERR doens't tell you enough information, like in your case. There are couple things you can do:

1. Perform a system call trace on naim and see where it fails
2. open up liaison.c and look at line 34 with an editor and see how the code works.

When error messages don't really help you, you gotta perform your own debugging

.

-twantrd

LkNsngth · 01-10-2005, 09:53 PM

Hmmm I cant really find Liason.c ...
Can you give my the SYNOPSIS for naim.

Im just typing into the kernel naim. THat may be the problem

twantrd · 01-11-2005, 01:27 AM

I've used naim back in college and now I completely forgot how it works. However, I remember just running the binary 'naim' should do it. Did you read the README to see what packages it needs in order to run before you compiled it ?

-twantrd

LkNsngth · 01-11-2005, 08:18 PM

Actually, I dont have naim on m "real" Linux, I have it on my laptop which uses CYGWIN.

twantrd · 01-12-2005, 01:19 AM

Why don't you grab the source code of naim and compile it yourself? Much easier...

-twantrd

LkNsngth · 01-13-2005, 07:29 PM

do u know where to get it without one of those .gz.tar files, because i dont have things to open that up...

twantrd · 01-13-2005, 10:24 PM

You have cygwin right? I believe there is no cygwin package. If you had redhat, most likely there exists a naim.rpm or whatever but I think your best bet is to grab the tar.gz and extract it. If you don't have it, use cygwin to install gunzip and tar.

-twantrd