gtk-gnutella will not run

[Mark Fraser]

When I try to run gtk-gnutella 0.98.4-1 in Kubuntu 13.04 64bit, it doesn't actually run. 2 tasks are visible in the task manager, but I don't see anything else.
Launching from the console, I see this:
13-05-13 16:26:33 (INFO): gtk-gnutella/0.98.4 (2012-11-11; GTK2; Linux x86_64)
13-05-13 16:26:33 (INFO): using native malloc()
13-05-13 16:26:33 (INFO): INPUTEVT using customized I/O dispatching with epoll()
13-05-13 16:26:33 (INFO): language code: "en"
13-05-13 16:26:33 (INFO): using locale character set "UTF-8"
13-05-13 16:26:33 (INFO): primary filename character set "UTF-8"
13-05-13 16:26:33 (MESSAGE): D-BUS set up and ready for use.

And nothing else happens.

[Mark Fraser (launchpad-mfraz)]

I have reported this bug to the gtk-gnutella team at https://sourceforge.net/p/gtk-gnutella/bugs/524/

[Mark Fraser (launchpad-mfraz)]

I have compiled and installed the fixed version from git and it now works. Can we now have a new package in the Ubuntu repositories?

[zapman (zapman)]

This also happens on Xubuntu 13.10 i386 with gtk-gnutella 0.98.4-1. I get the following message when I launch gtkg from the command line:
zapman@xubuntu:~$ gtk-gnutella

***MEMORY-ERROR***: [2882]: GSlice: failed to allocate 504 bytes (alignment: 512): Cannot allocate memory

Aborted (core dumped)

(This was discussed on the SourceForge bug report Mark mentioned). Fortunately, compiling and installing gtk-gnutella 1.0 works just fine so it would be great to have this package updated.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Luca Bruno (lucab)]

Should be fixed in 1.0.0-1.

[chris_debian (cjhandrew)]

Hi, i'm getting this too on the LTS version of Linux Mint, based on Ubuntu Precise. Will the version 1.0.0-1 fix be applied to older versions, such as the one I have installed (0.98.4-1)?

Thanks,

Chris.

[Mark Fraser (launchpad-mfraz)]

I gave up waiting, downloaded the latest version using git and compiled it myself. It is extremely easy to compile if you follow the instructions.

[zapman (zapman)]

Hi chris_debian,

I may be wrong but AFAIK the fix of version 1.0.0-1 won't be applied to older versions. The current release is 1.0.1 and I'd recommend compiling it from source or, as a last resort, using the following PPA: https://launchpad.net/~zapman/+archive/gtkg

Alternatively, you can wait for the next Mint version: thanks to the upload of Luca Bruno, the debian maintainer, the next version will have gtkg 1.0.1.