bibletime crashing after ASSERT: "mod" in bt_thmlhtml.cpp (329)

[Herbert Thielen]

Binary package hint: bibletime

I just installed bibletime 1.6.5.1-1 on jaunty.

When trying to access some installed bible comments, it crashed with the following log messages:

ERROR: corrupt data during decompression.
(BibleTime 1.6.5.1) WARNING: Unlock key of module GerHfa2002 is NOT valid
ERROR: corrupt data during decompression.
(BibleTime 1.6.5.1) WARNING: Unlock key of module GerHfaLex2002 is NOT valid
(BibleTime 1.6.5.1) WARNING: Unlock key of module GerHfa2002 is NOT valid
(BibleTime 1.6.5.1) WARNING: Unlock key of module GerHfa2002 is NOT valid
(BibleTime 1.6.5.1) WARNING: Unlock key of module GerHfa2002 is NOT valid
(BibleTime 1.6.5.1) WARNING: Unlock key of module GerHfa2002 is NOT valid
Error reading ulBuffNum
Error reading ulBuffNum
(BibleTime 1.6.5.1) WARNING: Unlock key of module GerHfa2002 is NOT valid
(BibleTime 1.6.5.1) WARNING: Unlock key of module GerHfa2002 is NOT valid
(BibleTime 1.6.5.1) WARNING: ASSERT: "mod" in bt_thmlhtml.cpp (329)
*** BibleTime got signal 11 (Crashing). Trying to save settings.
*** Saving seemed to be successful. If restoring does not work on next startup please use the option --ignore-session
KCrash: Application 'bibletime' crashing...
KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly.

[Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden)]

Thanks for reporting this.

BibleTime 1.6.5.1 is now very old indeed, as is the SWORD library it uses. BibleTime 2.0-1 packages for Intrepid, Jaunty and Karmic exist in our PPA at http://launchpad.net/~pkgcrosswire/+archive/ppa/

Please uninstall bibletime and then add our PPA to your software sources and install the newer BibleTime from the PPA, and retest. I think this bug will disappear.

Once Ubuntu Karmic is released we will look at getting Bibletime 2.0 packages into intreid-backports and jaunty-backports repositories also, so there will be no need for Intrepid and Jaunty users to use our PPA directly.

Incidentally, the warnings about GerHfa2002 are caused by a buggy SWORD data module. I am not sure if a corrected one has been published by the Crosswire team yet.

Jonathan