[scribus] 1.5.0 fails for me.

Sat Mar 17 17:45:53 UTC 2012

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:01:45 -0400
john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:56:41 -0400
> Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> 
> > >
> > here's a mini-tutorial on backtrace:
> > 
> > you need to have gdb on your system.
> > 
> > then in console, type 'gdb /your/path/to/scribus1.50/bin/scribus'
> > then type 'run'
> > after the crash, type 'bt' and you get the backtrace
> > 
> > Greg
> 
> Here's an update. I built a new Slackware partition and got 1.5.0
> to compile and work. But that version won't work on my old
> partition. So there is something that is called by Scribus 1.5.0
> that I have incautiously updated, maybe GTKMM. The same thing is
> not called by 1.4.x.
> 
> I'll do the backtrace bit and try to narrow it down. Worst case
> I'll just replace the libs etc. on the old partition with those
> on the new one.

Here are the results of the gdb trace:
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Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x08b70d76 in _cairo_array_allocate ()
(gdb) bt >foobar
A syntax error in expression, near `>foobar'.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x08b70d76 in _cairo_array_allocate ()
#1  0x08b70da9 in _cairo_array_append_multiple ()
#2  0x08b70e75 in _cairo_array_append ()
#3  0x08b70fd0 in _cairo_user_data_array_set_data ()
#4  0xb24dd5ca in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#5  0xb24a5141 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#6  0xb24b1720 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#7  0xb24a5141 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#8  0xb249fc20 in gdk_cairo_create () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#9  0xb26e33c5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#10 0xb26ee67a in gtk_paint_focus () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#11 0xb65be26a in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#12 0xb65b5aa6 in QGtkStyle::drawControl(QStyle::ControlElement, QStyleOption const*, QPainter*, QWidget const*) const () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#13 0xb66a1ffb in QPushButton::paintEvent(QPaintEvent*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#14 0xb6255be8 in QWidget::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#15 0xb6602e1e in QAbstractButton::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#16 0xb66a2e12 in QPushButton::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#17 0xb61fc8c4 in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#18 0xb62014bb in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#19 0xb59f152b in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#20 0xb6252804 in QWidgetPrivate::drawWidget(QPaintDevice*, QRegion const&, QPoint const&, int, QPainter*, QWidgetBackingStore*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#21 0xb6253514 in QWidgetPrivate::paintSiblingsRecursive(QPaintDevice*, QList<QObject*> const&, int, QRegion const&, QPoint const&, int, QPainter*, QWidgetBackingStore*) ()
   from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#22 0xb6252560 in QWidgetPrivate::drawWidget(QPaintDevice*, QRegion const&, QPoint const&, int, QPainter*, QWidgetBackingStore*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#23 0xb6253514 in QWidgetPrivate::paintSiblingsRecursive(QPaintDevice*, QList<QObject*> const&, int, QRegion const&, QPoint const&, int, QPainter*, QWidgetBackingStore*) ()
   from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#24 0xb6252560 in QWidgetPrivate::drawWidget(QPaintDevice*, QRegion const&, QPoint const&, int, QPainter*, QWidgetBackingStore*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#25 0xb642e85e in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#26 0xb6248013 in QWidgetPrivate::syncBackingStore() () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#27 0xb625624d in QWidget::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#28 0xb674348c in QMessageBox::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#29 0xb61fc8c4 in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#30 0xb62014bb in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#31 0xb59f152b in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#32 0xb59f5145 in QCoreApplicationPrivate::sendPostedEvents(QObject*, int, QThreadData*) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#33 0xb59f531d in QCoreApplication::sendPostedEvents(QObject*, int) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#34 0xb5a1ea34 in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#35 0xb4e41432 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#36 0xb4e41c10 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#37 0xb4e41ec4 in g_main_context_iteration () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#38 0xb5a1ebac in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#39 0xb62adad5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#40 0xb59f06e9 in QEventLoop::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#41 0xb59f098a in QEventLoop::exec(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#42 0xb67228a3 in QDialog::exec() () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#43 0xb6745f53 in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#44 0xb6746056 in QMessageBox::critical(QWidget*, QString const&, QString const&, QFlags<QMessageBox::StandardButton>, QMessageBox::StandardButton) () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libQtGui.so.4
#45 0x084caa36 in PrefsManager::alertLoadPrefsFailed() const ()
#46 0x084f963c in PrefsManager::ReadPrefs(QString const&) ()
#47 0x08693ecc in ScribusCore::initScribusCore(bool, bool, bool, QString, QString) ()
#48 0x08693ff4 in ScribusCore::startGUI(bool, bool, bool, QString, QString) ()
#49 0x086886c3 in ScribusQApp::init() ()
#50 0x08b3d846 in mainApp(int, char**) ()
#51 0x08b3d8ca in main ()
(gdb) 
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Does this ring any bells? 

Thanks in advance 
John Culleton