gschem segfaults on start

[Trouilliez vincent]

In Breeezy, 'gschem', which is part of gEDA does not work but it worked in previous versions of Ubuntu. For example, when starting gschem (the schematic capture tool) the following occurs:

Error : system-error [C:58 L:24] in /etc/gEDA/system-gschemrc
Most recently read form: (#@load (#@string-append #@gedadatarc
/etc/gEDA/system-gafrc))
Failed to read init scm file [(null)/gschem.scm]
Segmentation fault

This can be reproduced by running 'gschem' from a shell or by running 'geda' from a shell and then selecting the schematic tool.

[Ruudiculus (ruudbeukema)]

Here's my slightly different error message;

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Errno was: 13

Error : system-error [C:52 L:25] in /etc/gEDA/system-gschemrc
Most recently read form: (#@load (#@string-append #@gedadatarc /system-commonrc))
Failed to read init scm file [(null)/gschem.scm]
Segmentation fault

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The system-commonrc file doesn't contain any line which loads "system-gafrc". The result is te same though: not loading gschem.

It may help solving the problem...

[daller (daniel-dallerweb)]

I can only confirm this behaviour!

This is the output I get:

daniel@ubuntu:~$ gschem
gEDA/gschem version 20040111
gEDA/gschem comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; see COPYING for more details.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; please see the COPYING file for more details.

Error : system-error [C:52 L:25] in /etc/gEDA/system-gschemrc
Most recently read form: (#@load (#@string-append #@gedadatarc /system-commonrc))
Failed to read init scm file [(null)/gschem.scm]

[frans (fransschreuder)]

I have the same in Kubuntu 5.10:

gEDA/gschem version 20040111
gEDA/gschem comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; see COPYING for more details.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; please see the COPYING file for more details.

Read system-gschemrc file [/etc/gEDA/system-gschemrc]
Did not find optional ~/.gEDA/gschemrc file [/root/.gEDA/gschemrc]
Did not find optional local gschemrc file [./gschemrc]
Could not find [(null)/gschem.scm] for interpretion
Failed to read init scm file [(null)/gschem.scm]

[frans (fransschreuder)]

I just got it working by downloading the *.rpm packages from geda.seul.org and install them with alien -i
(just get alien with apt)

[Aanjhan Ranganathan (aanjhan)]

There is a work around.

gschem expects system-commonrc file on /etc/gEDA/
See whether it is there else put it in.
It works.

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

Uploaded new version in Dapper. Thanks.