Re: GNUstep apps segfault on startup with Debian packages

[Adam Fedor]

These are all very odd problems. Is it possible to get a gdb backtrace? 
You can go

debugapp MyApp.app
> run
{crash}
> bt


And your path should include $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Tools/ 
ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/gpbs, unless GNUstep.sh is not getting 
sourced. Or unless you have a very old version of GNUstep installed.

Jim Balhoff wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion - I didn't have my .xinitrc configured (but 
> this hasn't stopped GNUstep in my previous setup - I just let the first 
> app start it up). So I used the file from the buildguide.  I had to put 
> a link from $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Tools/gpbs to 
> $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Tools/ ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/gpbs for gpbs to 
> be found.  But anyway, starting gpbs results in "Segmentation fault" as 
> well.
> Another weird thing is that all the "defaults write" commands produce 
> "defaults write: domain is not a dictionary!"
>
> Thanks - still not working,
> Jim
>
>
>
> On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 06:13 PM, Jim McLoughlin wrote:
>
> > Hi there
> >
> > My guess is that you did not configure your .xinitrc file to start the 
> > pasteboard server on X startup.  When installing the debian packages, 
> > it still helps to follow the build guide located at 
> > http://documents.made-it.com/GNUstep/Build.  You should look at 
> > section 6, which covers post install configuration.
> >
> > The debian installers should handle section 6.1 (starting gdomap and 
> > gdnc), but you should configure the .xinitrc as in section 6.3 (linked 
> > to here: http://documents.made-it.com/GNUstep/Build/xinitrc).  Thsi 
> > .xinitrc will also handle setting your defaults (described in section 
> > 6.2).
> >
> > I recall seeing segfault before I did the above, so hopefully this 
> > will solve your problem.
> >
> > jim M
> >
> >
> >
> > On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 05:51 AM, Jim Balhoff wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is anyone using the compiled GNUstep packages available for Debian?  
> > > I decided to try Debian a few days ago after seeing that I could just 
> > > use apt-get to install GNUstep.  Everything else is working fine, but 
> > > trying to launch any GNUstep app just produces "Segmentation fault."  
> > > I at first tried Debian "stable", and nothing worked.  So I upgraded 
> > > my whole system to "unstable" to get the newer packages (make/base 
> > > 1.5.0, gui/back 0.8.1).  Still a no-go.  I've tried the Debian 
> > > packages for some apps as well as compiled some myself - same result. 
> > >  I don't want to build my own GNUstep libraries - since I switched to 
> > > Debian so I could have GNUstep integrated into the rest of my package 
> > > management (and building GNUstep takes a while on my old laptop).
> > >
> > > Anyone got it working?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > P.S.  Maybe this is more of a Debian question, but I thought I'd find 
> > > some others with this setup here.
>
>
>
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