Anomalous visual program editor of openDX in 64bit ubuntu/kubuntu

[Gominolas]

Binary package hint: dx

When running openDX 4.4.0 in Kubuntu Feisty Fawn 64bit, the software works properly (programs can be loaded, executed...). The problem comes when running a program, at the Visual Program Editor(VPE) window of the windows menu, where the area meant for editing programs just shows a thin tag and nothing can be edited in the window. Due to this issue no program cannot be edited.

- OpenDX version is 4.4.0.
- openDX 4.4.0 worked fine previously in the same computer with a SUSE 10.1 64bit distro
- The same problem has been observed in another computer with Kubuntu Edgy 64bit and previously in ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=286379) with no answer.

Greetings,

Roland Blanch

[Craig J Copi (cbug)]

I can confirm I have seen the same problem on two different 64 bit Feisty boxes (one with nvidia card, one with ati).

To work around the problem I rebuilt the package without optimization (-O0). It runs as expected now.

Craig

[tcriess (thorsten-riess)]

I can confirm the bug here as well - on Feisty 64 bit and also on the latest Gutsy Alpha 64 bit. Self compiled version with -O0 works.
Thorsten.

[tcriess (thorsten-riess)]

Just curious: is there any chance that this obvious and annoying bug (which basically renders the application unusable) will be corrected at some point?

[hippocanjump (hippocanjump)]

Same error here

Gutsy, Dual Core AMD64 with Nvidia drivers. DX editor shows a thin tab with no space for editing programs. A bit of annoying, really.

[hippocanjump (hippocanjump)]

I tried compiling OpenDX-4.4.4 with the flags -O0 and got the same error in VPE.

[Srinath Madhavan (msrinath80)]

Seems to work fine on Debian testing after building from source. I've updated the thread on ubuntuforums --> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5358922

[Craig J Copi (cbug)]

For Hardy I haven't been able to get the 4.4.0 package to work. Even when compiled with -O0 the VPE error persists. Interestingly if I compile from the original source it works fine.

Recently I pulled down the 4.4.4 source package from Intrepid (4.4.4-1) and compiled and installed it on my Hardy machines. It works as expected; no VPE error!

I do not have a 64 bit machine running Intrepid so I cannot verify that this is fixed in Intrepid.

[Craig J Copi (cbug)]

More information: The problem shows up when dx is built again lesstif2, it does NOT show up when built against libmotif3.

In Hardy I built 4.4.4-1 against libmotif3 and the editor works correctly.

In Intrepid if I build 4.4.4-1 against lesstif2 the editor does not work correctly. This is the way the dx package is built in the repositories.

In Intrepid if I build 4.4.4-1 against libmotif3 the editor does work correctly.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

lesstif2 version 1:0.95.0-2.3 was fixed with respect to a major 64bit issue. Could you please check/confirm that the bug still exists with lesstif2 version 1:0.95.0-2.3?