[gentoo-user] apps-office/gtg Won't Work on ~amd64

[gentoo-user] apps-office/gtg Won't Work on ~amd64

[Nikola Hardi]

Hi! I've got some troubles with running apps-office/gtg (Getting Things
Gnome) on my ~amd64 machine. I'm just getting segmentation fault. A
friend of mine told me that it works on amd64 arch. Have anybody else
expirienced such problem on ~amd64 and what could be the problem? I've
tried to run it as normal and as a root user, and got the same problem.

This is my the first post on some mailing list so please tell me if I've
done something wrong. :)

Nikola

Re: [gentoo-user] apps-office/gtg Won't Work on ~amd64

[James Wall]

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Does your system pass memtest86+ on an overnight run?

On Mar 4, 2011 4:24 AM, "Nikola Hardi" <hardi.nikola@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi! I've got some troubles with running apps-office/gtg (Getting Things
Gnome) on my ~amd64 machine. I'm just getting segmentation fault. A
friend of mine told me that it works on amd64 arch. Have anybody else
expirienced such problem on ~amd64 and what could be the problem? I've
tried to run it as normal and as a root user, and got the same problem.

This is my the first post on some mailing list so please tell me if I've
done something wrong. :)

Nikola

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Re: [gentoo-user] apps-office/gtg Won't Work on ~amd64

[Nikola Hardi]

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I'll run memtest tonight, but why it is important? I havn't experienced
some other mailfunctions like this.

On 03/04/2011 02:23 PM, James Wall wrote:
>
> Does your system pass memtest86+ on an overnight run?
>
>> On Mar 4, 2011 4:24 AM, "Nikola Hardi" <hardi.nikola@gmail.com
>> <mailto:hardi.nikola@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi! I've got some troubles with running apps-office/gtg (Getting Things
>> Gnome) on my ~amd64 machine. I'm just getting segmentation fault. A
>> friend of mine told me that it works on amd64 arch. Have anybody else
>> expirienced such problem on ~amd64 and what could be the problem? I've
>> tried to run it as normal and as a root user, and got the same problem.
>>
>> This is my the first post on some mailing list so please tell me if I've
>> done something wrong. :)
>>
>> Nikola
>>


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Re: [gentoo-user] apps-office/gtg Won't Work on ~amd64

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Nikola Hardi <hardi.nikola@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! I've got some troubles with running apps-office/gtg (Getting Things
> Gnome) on my ~amd64 machine. I'm just getting segmentation fault. A
> friend of mine told me that it works on amd64 arch. Have anybody else
> expirienced such problem on ~amd64 and what could be the problem? I've
> tried to run it as normal and as a root user, and got the same problem.
>
> This is my the first post on some mailing list so please tell me if I've
> done something wrong. :)

Hi, and welcome to the list. :)

You can try to run it via strace to see what it's doing when it crashes.

You can try to compile it with debug symbols in-tact and run it in a debugger.

Also check dmesg output after the segfault happens, sometimes it'll
write something to the kernel log there (especially if it's glibc
blocking potential buffer overruns etc.).

Re: [gentoo-user] apps-office/gtg Won't Work on ~amd64

[Nikola Hardi]

On 03/04/2011 08:11 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Nikola Hardi <hardi.nikola@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi! I've got some troubles with running apps-office/gtg (Getting Things
>> Gnome) on my ~amd64 machine. I'm just getting segmentation fault. A
>> friend of mine told me that it works on amd64 arch. Have anybody else
>> expirienced such problem on ~amd64 and what could be the problem? I've
>> tried to run it as normal and as a root user, and got the same problem.
>>
>> This is my the first post on some mailing list so please tell me if I've
>> done something wrong. :)
> Hi, and welcome to the list. :)
>
> You can try to run it via strace to see what it's doing when it crashes.
>
> You can try to compile it with debug symbols in-tact and run it in a debugger.
>
> Also check dmesg output after the segfault happens, sometimes it'll
> write something to the kernel log there (especially if it's glibc
> blocking potential buffer overruns etc.).
>
>
Thanks for the welcome. :)

I've found something in dmesg about uuids:

[ 5082.367340] gtg[4333]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f95dd57e9d2 sp
00007ffff23614d0 error 6 in libuuid.so.1.3.0[7f95dd57d000+4000]
[ 5119.329740] gtg[4575]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f5a1f8af9d2 sp
00007fff6dd74e30 error 6 in libuuid.so.1.3.0[7f5a1f8ae000+4000]
[ 7920.250220] gtg[32397]: segfault at 8 ip 00007fa971ae49d2 sp
00007fffbb013590 error 6 in libuuid.so.1.3.0[7fa971ae3000+4000]

And I was told on #gtg support channel that it has to be something with
this bug:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317557

Here is the strace log, too: http://pastebin.com/LRyLgv1H

The solution may be downgrade of the sys-apps/util-linux and libuuid
library. A quick fix is random number generator for uuid, for now. :D