Xaralx (1764) and Debian (testing)

Hi,

I have just joined this wonderful group. I have been following Xaralx and the wonderful forum for getting some tips and/or doubts clarified.

Of late, I upgraded my debian system from sarge to testing. I noticed that, xaralx no longer runs. It segfaults. Removed ~/..XARA-XTREME-WX-xaralx-mas and ~/.XaraLXFilters/. Still the same problem. Ran starce on xaralx and here are the last lines of the ouput:

fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=909044, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 935588, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 6, 0) = 0xb6fea000
mmap2(0xb70c4000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 6, 0xd9) = 0xb70c4000
mmap2(0xb70c9000, 22180, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb70c9000
close(6) = 0
mprotect(0xb70c4000, 12288, PROT_READ) = 0
gettimeofday({1164678795, 243914}, NULL) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigaction(SIGFPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGILL, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGBUS, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGFPE, {0xb781e790, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGILL, {0xb781e790, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGBUS, {0xb781e790, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {0xb781e790, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Process 3907 detached

Can someone point to me a solution for this problem?

Regards,

Hello Mas,

I was hoping one of the Linux users that understand what you said would post a reply.

The developers are currently working on a new release of the Windows version and aren't available currently.

Which package are you using?

I'm using the tarball on an up to date Etch with no problems. If you are using the autopackage version you might want to try the tarball. Personally I've never quite trusted autopackage, probably because I've never taken the time to figure out how it works.

I have never used the autopackage. Always, the tarball. Yesterday night even tried the recommended version (1692). Even that segfaults :(

Hmm. I see you posted the same question to debian-user and are able to use the deb so perhaps something specific to your system was broken during the upgrade. You could try deleting ~/.xaralx which contains the preferences file.

When is LX crashing and does it report any error messages on the console? Does it offer to generate an error report?

Is the version that you're running compiled with debug info? Possibly running it in gdb might be able to help pinpoint where the segfault is occuring.

From the sounds of things, perhaps a library that xaralx is dynamically linking to was upgraded as part of your system and isn't backward compatible or something.

I'll second the recommendation to remove the preferences and try running it again so that it's "fresh".

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Originally Posted by mas

I have never used the autopackage. Always, the tarball. Yesterday night even tried the recommended version (1692). Even that segfaults :(

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This is weird. I installed both versions in Debian testing, Knoppix 5.x Live DVD, and Studio to Go! (Debian based ) . All distros had xtremelx working fine just by following standard tarball install proceedures.

Just so you know...sorry I don't have a solution for you.

Give the autopackage installation a try. It works fine.

Remi

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Originally Posted by Odat

From the sounds of things, perhaps a library that xaralx is dynamically linking to was upgraded as part of your system and isn't backward compatible or something.

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I sensed as much and did an ldd on xaralx binary. All libraries were found. But, regarding the backwards compatibility issue, I could not find anything missing.

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I'll second the recommendation to remove the preferences and try running it again so that it's "fresh".

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Same result. I had tried it and had forgot to mention it on my first mail :-(

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Originally Posted by Doug

This is weird. I installed both versions in Debian testing, Knoppix 5.x Live DVD, and Studio to Go! (Debian based ) . All distros had xtremelx working fine just by following standard tarball install proceedures.

Just so you know...sorry I don't have a solution for you.

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Well, may be not exactly. Can you mail me offlist the output of

COLS=132 dpkg -l

so that I can verify it against the installed versions on my system?

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Originally Posted by mas

Well, may be not exactly. Can you mail me offlist the output of

COLS=132 dpkg -l

so that I can verify it against the installed versions on my system?

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I have no idea what you are talking about...

I know dpkg is for installing .debs, but all I have ever used is:

dpkg -i package.deb

Sorry...:confused:

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Originally Posted by Doug

I have no idea what you are talking about...

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The command mas gave will list all of the packages, including version numbers, that are installed on your system. On my system that's a bit over 1500 packages.

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Originally Posted by jedfrechette

The command mas gave will list all of the packages, including version numbers, that are installed on your system. On my system that's a bit over 1500 packages.

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So he wants me to list several thousand packages for him? That's a bit much... :eek: I'm sure that it would not be appreciated if I posted all those...:confused:

Doug, you could compress the text file and then email it to Mas, or send him a PM to arrange to send it to him.

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Originally Posted by Soquili

Doug, you could compress the text file and then email it to Mas, or send him a PM to arrange to send it to him.

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But what is the point? I'm using a customized version of Studio to Go by Fervent Software, a Debian based digital audio distro. I highly doubt that he is using the same distro with the same changes, updates, etc. that I have! <shrug>

Can someone be more specific as to what they want to compare?

Sorry Doug, I was thinking you and Mas were running the same distro.

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Originally Posted by Soquili

Sorry Doug, I was thinking you and Mas were running the same distro.

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No problem, Bill. :-)

I originally posted just to mention that lx worked 'out of the box' in different Debian based distros FOR ME. I downloaded the bzip2, extracted it with Ark, clicked on the xaralx file, and there I was in Xara Xtreme LX!

And that's all I did-so help me! lol!!! :-)

I can run Xtreme on the same distro and version as mas (Debian Etch/testing) so I can send the list if you really want it. However given that we should have the exact same set of libraries and ldd indicates that you have what you need I suspect that this is not a simple library version mismatch.

Assuming that Xtreme isn't giving any useful error messages the next thing I would try is to run it with gdb.

I don't know if this is related but there was a thread back in September by someone on Ubuntu who had Xtreme crashing very early with no useful error messages. The issue seems to be with SCIM input. The associated bug is still open but the thread mentioned above gives a work around.

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Originally Posted by Doug

So he wants me to list several thousand packages for him? That's a bit much... :eek: I'm sure that it would not be appreciated if I posted all those...:confused:

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Yes. That is why I asked it to be mailed to me directly as the package list would be debian specific and not useful to all xara users.

I checked the same on my system. The uncompressed file is about 145k which when compressed gives me a 32k file. That file can be mailed to me directly.

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Originally Posted by jedfrechette

thread back in September by someone on Ubuntu who had Xtreme crashing very early with no useful error messages. The issue seems to be with SCIM input. The associated bug is still open but the thread mentioned above gives a work around.

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Thanks. That solved the problem. I now have xaralx running. Thanks for everyone who helped.

Regards.

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Originally Posted by mas

Thanks. That solved the problem.

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Glad to hear you got it working.