When situations like this occur, I run the program from the command line (terminal) that way you can get a better picture of errors for apps that send error messages to stdout and not /var/log/messages.
It could be as simple as a lib version mismatch. Ed On 10/21/13, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using two programs with Ubuntu 12.04 the last few days. Before > last week I was unable to get them working on 12.04 and had to use a > second machine running 10.04 to run them while running Libre Office on > the 12.04 machine. These are the tools I use when transcribing an audio > file, the Python programs Transcribe and Footpedal. > > They appear to work fine for the most part, but once in awhile I get a > pop up window claiming that one or the other of them has crashed. I > close that window by clicking on the button that says something to the > effect of "leave closed." The programs are still running, though. I have > had the problem of the footpedal program quitting in the middle of a > session on two occasions. I simply stop the playback using the mouse on > a button on the transcribe program. Then I double check to make sure > footpedal has stopped by opening a terminal and running: > > ps ax | grep footpedal > > On these occasions the programmed had indeed stopped running. I just > restart it and pick up from where I left off. (The reason I have to > check is that there is no visible indication that the program is > running. There is the obvious indication that the machine isn't > responding to the physical foot pedal, of course.) > > As for the transcribe program, I do the same thing, where I close the > alert window with the "leave closed" button. There is a window open for > that program, so I can see that it is still running. > > So, today's question: While this is a minor annoyance, is it something I > should be more concerned about? I could report the incident to the > maintainer of the transcribe program, but it appears that the footpedal > program has been abandoned. > > -- > Regards, > > Richard C. Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Sent from my mobile device You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
