Unable to start xaralx on Ubuntu 6.06

[abligh]

Well, it does look like it might be C library problem.

Here's the debugging output, along with a "free" and a "ps aux" for good measure.

Thanks for the help you're giving. I really appreciate it.

OK, it's getting a seg fault from something or other. Could you please repeat the process, but after the seg fault ("Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.") type "bt" before doing the "quit", then paste the result again.

It must be pretty early on on the execution sequence because we install our own SEGV handler.

Alex

[kashirigi]

Hi Alex,

Here is the new, revised, output.

Thanks again.

[abligh]

Interesting. It looks like the scim problem we've been having with Mandriva is appearing on Ubuntu too.

I've added your backtrace to:
http://bugzilla.xara.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1574

feel free to add yourself as a CC on the bug (you'll need to set up an account). Hopefully this will be of use to Luke in narrowing it down given it happens so very early on boot.

The good news is that the last I heard from Luke, this /was/ a C-library problem, so a native .deb should fix it.

Alex

[kashirigi]

I have made a cludgy hack to "solve" the problem. I haven't played around with it, but at least it will start now. I won't have Japanese input in Xara, but I can live without it, at least for now.

make a new file called xaralx.sh, and make it's contents like this:

#! /bin/bash
unset XMODIFIERS
unset GTK_IM_MODULE
unset QT_IM_MODULE
/usr/bin/xaralx &
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export GTM_IM_MODULES=scim
export QT_IM_MODULES=scim


instead of running xaralx, use sh ./xaralx.sh

I certainly can't guarantee that this will work on every system. I does, however, make xara start on mine.