#+TITLE: Code::Blocks "process terminted with signal 255 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)"
#+DATE: 2009-08-25 10:40
#+TAGS: codeblocks fedora coding

Yesterday after I came home from work I thought I'd try working on a
project I've been working on this past weekend.

I was away from home this weekend, so all the work I'd done had been
on another computer, in a virtual Ubuntu installation, so I hadn't yet
tried it at home.

Trying to build it went fine. Running it from a terminal went
fine. Even compiling and running on another Ubuntu installation (my
work laptop, non-virtual) went fine, but Code::Blocks reported to me
that whenever I tried running my application on my Fedora 11 home
installation that it terminated with signal 255.

I couldn't find what was wrong, I knew the application worked since I
tested it in another terminal window and if I debugged it it'd go
great up to the point where it met with a ~cin~ or ~cout~.

Being tired from a really long day (getting up at 5:00am, get on train
at 6:25am, get off train at 8:30am and at work 8:50am), I gave up
fairly quickly.

This morning though the itch got worse and I just had to investigate
further.

After about a minute of looking around I found someone at the Ubuntu
Forums asking about the exact same thing and it turns out that the
problem was that xterm wasn't installed. So a simple

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
  su -c "yum install xterm"
#+END_SRC

was enough to fix the problem.

Now I can start developing my application again!