veusz 2.0.1 segmentation fault at startup (Linux)

[andres-GHub]

hi,
I tried to run veusz 2.0.1 from the binary (I have no admin rights on my machine and so I just unpack the tar.xz and run ./veusz on the command line) but receive a 'segmentation fault (core dumped)' message. Version 1.27 runs fine.

Running Kubuntu 64Bit 14.04
KDELibs version: 4.13.3
Qt version: 4.8.6
Kernel: 3.13.0-128-generic

After running through gdb this is the output:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xf7fdb440 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0xf7fdb440 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xf7e0f687 in raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#2 0x0804c680 in ?? ()
#3 0x0804a565 in ?? ()
#4 0x080491ab in ?? ()
#5 0xf7dfaaf3 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#6 0x080491d7 in ?? ()

Cheers

[jeremysanders]

Please give details about the linux installation you're trying to run it on.

[KDB2]

I can't reproduce it. And without admin rights, I guess it is impossible to install the debugging libraries. Therefore the ?? and () will remain and render a specific tracking impossible...

It seems to be outside of Veusz anyway.

[andres-GHub]

(updated orginal comment to include details on linux installation). I also tried copying and running veusz on an different machine (a server) but have the same issue. I asked admin to install veusz but they were unable to do so (installed 1.27 instead since its the latest version supported on ubuntu 14.04 )

[andres-GHub]

following sec. 1.3 of (running in place):
https://veusz.github.io/releasenotes/2.0.1-install.txt
works.
When using the binary install (sec. 2.1) I get the segmentation fault error
perhaps the mentioned 'glibc/library incompatibilities'?

[KDB2]

I don't see any update of the initial post. Which distro are you using? With which Python version and which libc6 version?

[andres-GHub]

(forgot to update initial comment ...).
Current libc6: 2.19-0ubuntu6.13
Python 2.7.13 :: Anaconda custom (64-bit)

[jeremysanders]

The binaries are built on CentOS 6 (glibc-2.12), so in theory should be compatible. There must be an API issue there somewhere...

[jeremysanders]

I can reproduce the problem. It looks like I can work around the problem by deleting the files libX11.so.6 and libXext.so.6 from the veusz directory. Does that work for you?

[jeremysanders]

I've changed the way that binaries were built on linux some time ago. Please feel free to reopen this bug if there's still a problem.