I am having trouble running a custom application that my Point of Sale software provider wrote. It works fine in Mandrake 8.2. and it didnt work at all in 10.0 untill I installed the LibC library. now it works but intermittantly it bombs on me.. it errors when I try to do any config for devices like Printer setup or Function Key usage. I am not sure what it is.. but sometimes even when I just press the Preferences Button it bombs on me. I have run it from terminal mode to see what the error is. and it always seems to be a line of code bombing talking about lpt0 and lpt1. Again it works on Linux 8.2 beautifully and I am wondering if it could be that there is different handling of ports and things of that nature in 10.0 or if possibly it could be KDE. The latter seems less likely to me but I am no expert. Actually I would just switch to 8.2 but I like the 10.0 interface better and I have 13 machines with 10.0 and don't want to have to reinstall. But really I would just like to know what the problem really is.

What exactly do you mean when you say "it bombs"? What's the exact error message? Is there a core file? If so, have you tried getting a stack trace from the core file ("gdb COREFILE PROGRAM FILE, where")?

It sounds like the original executable probably depended on some shared libraries that you don't happen to have installed on your new system. Your Linux might have a version of "ldd" you can use to investigate further. Try "man ldd" for more info.

'Hope that helps .. PSM

they gave you the source code yes ??
try compiling a new version on your new setup ??
might help....

One of the Errors that come up when I look in the terminal window that I run the program from is

QComboBox::text: (ComboBoxPrinter1Name) Index 0 out of range

where the printers are setup it has /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 Printer 1 and 2 are giving these errors.

What I mean by bomb is that my screens just disappear. Its like terminal windows. Now when the error I just told you about comes up it doesnt bomb I am not sure what exact error causes it to bomb out on me but Its hard for me to duplicate the problem because once I have all the settings correct (fonts, printers, colors, etc..) it seems to work fine for a while and when it errors on me I am not usually running it from terminal mode

I did the ldd command and it gave me a huge list.. how do I see if any of those packages are not installaed