> >> I've recently switched distros to Mint Debian 12 64-bit > XFCE. This is > >> on an AMD Phenom *4, 4 GB of RAM. When I was reinstalling stuff I > >> noticed that the latest version of Lazarus that they have > in the repo > >> is 0.9.28, a bit old I know, but it works for what I do. > >> > >> So I installed 0.9.28, which also brought in FPC 2.4.0-2. > >> > >> When I try to run Lazarus from the menus, I get the splash > screen and > >> then nothing, the IDE never comes up. > >> > >> So, I switched to a terminal, ran startlazarus and got the > following > >> output. > >> > >> [WARNING] Out of OEM specific VK codes, changing to unassigned > >> [WARNING] Out of unassigned VK codes, assigning $FF > >> TLazarusManager.Run starting /usr/lib/lazarus/0.9.28.2/lazarus ... > >> Runtime error 203 at $0000000000736A16 $0000000000736A16 > >> $0000000000720991 > >> > >> > >> OK, maybe it's an old version. I downloaded the latest .DEBs from > >> SourceForge, and installed those. No change in the symptoms (well, > >> OK, I can't say the addresses were exactly the same, but the bit > >> about the VK codes was, and it was still a runtime error 203). > >> > >> I cleaned out everything to do with Lazarus and FPC that I > could find > >> (using KFind to make sure I got everything) and had one > more try with > >> 0.9.28. As expected, still the same error. I know that > 0.9.28 used to > >> run on Mint 9 64-bit, but that was the Ubuntu-based > version, not the > >> Debian-based one. > >> > >> Anyone have any ideas how to fix this, please? > > > > Starting at a shell prompt, if you load Lazarus in gdb, run > it, wait > > for the crash and then use GDB's bt command to get a > backtrace, do the > > first few lines say anything useful? > > > > Probably not, but this is what was produced using V0.9.28 > > <paste> > > run > Starting program: /usr/bin/startlazarus > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x00000000005a2879 in ?? () > (gdb) bt > #0 0x00000000005a2879 in ?? () > #1 0x00007fffffffe1c0 in ?? () > #2 0x00007ffff7de902c in ?? () from > /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 #3 0x0000000000502b31 in ?? () > #4 0x00007ffff577dead in __libc_start_main () from > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 > #5 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () > (gdb) > > > </paste> > >
There was a problem with ubuntu 12 and gtk (glib2-2.31). A patch was created and committed http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21129 . If mint 12 is derived from ubuntu 12 you'll probably running into this problem. Try lazarus from svn. Ludo -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
