wxmaxima crashes at startup (relocation error)

[Francois Thirioux]

[Impact]
wxmaxima does not start due to a abi change in libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0 (caused by gtk not providing some library anymore)

Only a small fraction of rdepends seems affected (2 of 29 tested ones) so the simplest solultion is probably to just rebuild the affected ones.

[TESTCASE]
in a terminal type:
$ wxmaxima

it should start, instead you get this:
wxmaxima: relocation error: wxmaxima: symbol _Z31_wx_link_dummy_func_gnome_printv, version WXU_2.8 not defined in file libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0 with link time reference

[Regression potential]
Zero, application unusable, fixed by no change rebuild

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel Serpell (daniel-serpell)]

I recompiled the package in current saucy and it works, seems that there is an incompatibility in current libwxgtk2.8-0.

[PeterPall (peterpall)]

Can confirm that:

 - Bug #613530 seems to show that this has already been the case in the past
 - Downgrading wxgtk to libwxgtk2.8-0_2.8.12.1-11ubuntu3 fixes the problem. Found this package on http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libw/libwx11/

[Francois Thirioux (fthx)]

For those who need wxmaxima now, Debian's last version does work ok, as mentioned above :
http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/wxmaxima/download
No need here to downgrade any package.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Ubuntu 13.10 final (i386):

wxmaxima: relocation error: wxmaxima: symbol _Z31_wx_link_dummy_func_gnome_printv, version WXU_2.8 not defined in file libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0 with link time reference

So bug exists.

[PeterPall (peterpall)]

Not exactly a bug, perhaps. But of you compile wxmaxima with an old version of wxwidgets and then upgrade wxwidgets - wxmacima is compiled for the old library. Did run the original code through the compiler again and the result does not have the problem any more.
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[PeterPall (peterpall)]

One of the first files available for ubuntu 14.4 is a fixed version of wxmaxima. Does anybody know how to mark the bug as fixed for a specific distribution?

[salviano (salvianoleao)]

I recompile with and its work for me:
first I remove the old package:

sudo apt-get remove wxmaxima

Next i build the new package with:

sudo apt-get -b source wxmaxima

and install the new package

sudo dpkg -i wxmaxima*.deb

This works for me.

[Gregor Riepl (onitake)]

You don't even have to uninstall the broken wxmaxima package first.
Just build from source:

apt-get source wxmaxima
cd wxmaxima-13.04.2
dpkg-buildpackage
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i wxmaxima_13.04.2-1_*.deb

dpkg-buildpackage might complain about some missing -dev packages, install those and run dpkg-buildpackage again.

There don't seem to be any changes required; can someone bump the version, rebuild the package correctly and promote it to the repositories?

[bowser (bwbernard-wong1)]

I installed wxmaxima from ppa and it all works.
https://launchpad.net/~blahota/+archive/wxmaxima

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

xaralx is also affected by this untransitioned abi break of wxwidgets

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package wxmaxima - 13.04.2-1build1

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wxmaxima (13.04.2-1build1) trusty; urgency=low

  * no change rebuild to adapt to abi change of libwxgtk2.8-0 (LP: #1226035)
 -- Julian Taylor <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:47:38 +0100

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

I uploaded a rebuild to saucy, please test the package when it is accepted. The release team will post instructions on how to do that.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Hello Francois, or anyone else affected,

Accepted wxmaxima into saucy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wxmaxima/13.04.2-1build0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Daniel Schury (surst)]

amd64 build of wxmaxima 13.04.2-1build0.1 fixes the problem for me

[Francois Thirioux (fthx)]

+1 .

Thanks !

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

i686 build of wxmaxima 13.04.2-1build0.1 fixes this bug in Ubuntu 13.10.
Thank you!

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package wxmaxima - 13.04.2-1build0.1

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wxmaxima (13.04.2-1build0.1) saucy-proposed; urgency=low

  * no change rebuild to adapt to abi change of libwxgtk2.8-0 (LP: #1226035)
 -- Julian Taylor <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Nov 2013 22:38:35 +0100

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Tested on Trusty - bug is fixed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Re #11: The xaralx part of this issue is likely covered by bug 1247219 which has been fixed in Ubuntu Utopic, and looks like it will be SRUed to 14.04.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

More on xaralx: the package has now been SRUed to 14.04, so I believe that part of this bug report can be closed now. An SRU did not happen for 13.10 since it had already reached End of Life at this point.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

xaralx and wxmaxima work normally in Ubuntu Utopic 14.10 final.