Re: GNUstep apps segfault on startup with Debian packages

[Jim Balhoff]

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.