Re: st: problems starting xstata

[Pete Huckelba <huckelba@stata.com>]

Stata not starting is a bit ambiguous.  Did you receive any error 
message[s]?  What _exactly_ are you typing to try and start xstata?  You 
may find that you need to contact Stata's Technical Support to get some 
help with this.  I recommend sending email to tech-support@stata.com with 
the following information:

1.  operating system - including distribution and version
2.  window manager
3.  contents of your $PATH variable
4.  contents of your $DISPLAY variable
5.  log of a session trying to start xstata.

From a prompt, you could do something like:

$ uname -a > ~/logtostata
$ cat ~/.X* >> ~/logtostata
$ echo $PATH >> ~/logtostata
$ echo $DISPLAY >> ~/logtostata
$ strace /usr/local/stata/xstata >> ~/logtostata

and then email that log to support for more help.

Pete

At 09:09 AM 9/17/2002, you wrote:

> Hi every body, my name is Petra, nice to meet you... Well I just bought STATA
> and installed it yesterday... buuuuut I can't start the xstata command. The
> issue is that I am completely new to Linux to... so the manual sais something
> of including the /usr/local/stata in my path, but they don't explain how to
> do that... can any body help me, so I can starta the GUI. With the console
> stata is no problem y wirte /usr/local/stata/stata and it starts and it tells
> me that the stata installation is good installed, but I jsut can't start the
> xstata command...
> Thanks a lot
> Petra
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Pete Huckelba
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