Well, I've done a bunch of testing with some virtual machines, plus a
bunch of web searches looking for other threads on this error, and it
seems to be plain that it's a multi-way incompatibility. If you are
running Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) V12 on an AMD 64-bit CPU (and
it doesn't matter whether you run a 32 or 64 bit version of the
operating system) then Lazarus will crash, reproducibly, and that
holds for any version of LAzarus between 0.9.28.2 up to a fairly
recent svn version.
If you're running on an Intel CPU, or a 32-bit AMD chip, or you're
running the Ubuntu-based version of Mint, you won't have a problem.
This is particularly puzzling since LMDE is built on Debian testing,
and Debian testing will run Lazarus without a problem. For that
reason, it seems to me that it's a problem for the LMDE folks rather
than the Lazarus developers.
Now, where did I put that Debian installation DVD?
Brian.
On 03/29/2012 04:19 AM, brian wrote:
For anyone still interested in this thread, sorry it's taking me so
long to post again but I'm on a satellite internet connection, I only
have unrestricted downloads between 0200 and 0700, and so it takes me
quite a while to set up virtual machines and do the updates.
While I've had one reply from a posting to the Mint Debian forums from
someone who is tracking the unstable repositories and is able to run
Lazarus without a problem, there seems to be no doubt that there is a
basic incompatibility between Lazarus and either the stable or testing
distros of Mint Debian. I haven't been able to get Lazarus to start on
either distro, whether 32 bit or 64 bit, but plain Debian stable or
testing runs Lazarus just fine.
I'm going to try pointing at the unstable repositories now, and I'll
post again in 3-4 days when I've had time to do the final set of
updates and try all the different permutations.
For the moment, I strongly advise anyone who wants to run Lazarus
*NOT* to install Linux Mint Debian. If you want a rolling distro,
stick with plain Debian rather than the Mint version, or try one of
the others.
All of the above does NOT apply to the Ubuntu-based versions of Mint.
They run Lazarus without problems, too.
Brian.
On 03/18/2012 08:36 AM, brian wrote:
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?
Brian.
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