WoW Model Viewer crashes on start (wxGTK application)

[Maia Everett]

1. Install the build dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libwxbase2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libglew1.5-dev libbz2-dev subversion

2. Checkout from SVN and build:

svn checkout http://wowmodelviewer.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ wowmodelviewer
cd wowmodelviewer
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../src
make

3. Run the program (you will need to point it to a World of Warcraft installed directory at start):

./wowmodelviewer

If you have RGBA enabled, you will need to run GTK_RGBA_APPS="" ./wowmodelviewer.

You will see an error message:

** ERROR **: Failed to register GObject with DBusConnection

Stack trace:

Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
0xb6d79a9f in g_logv () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb6d79a9f in g_logv () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#1 0xb6d79f02 in g_log () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#2 0xb2d451c2 in dbus_g_connection_register_g_object () from /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2
#3 0xb2d616bd in ?? () from /usr/lib/libdbusmenu-glib.so.1
#4 0xb6e26786 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5 0xb6e2768c in g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6 0xb6e283fc in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#7 0xb6e28517 in g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#8 0xb2d61041 in dbusmenu_server_new () from /usr/lib/libdbusmenu-glib.so.1
#9 0xb3fa4e43 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/libappmenu.so
#10 0xb6e2f3cc in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__PARAM () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 0xb6e201ca in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0xb6e3819d in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0xb6e39804 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#14 0xb6e39f72 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#15 0xb6e24841 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#16 0xb6e20f4f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#17 0xb6e262b3 in g_object_notify () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#18 0xb7390b1f in gtk_widget_set_parent () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#19 0xb7c5629e in gtk_pizza_put () from /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0
#20 0xb7caa3be in wxFrame::AttachMenuBar(wxMenuBar*) () from /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0
#21 0xb7d0ec8b in wxFrameBase::SetMenuBar(wxMenuBar*) () from /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0
#22 0x08189c1d in ModelViewer::InitMenu() ()
#23 0x08184da0 in ModelViewer::ModelViewer() ()
#24 0x080f1eb1 in WowModelViewApp::OnInit() ()
#25 0x080f4d46 in wxAppConsole::CallOnInit() ()
#26 0xb7ef2780 in wxEntry(int&, wchar_t**) () from /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0
#27 0xb7ef2987 in wxEntry(int&, char**) () from /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0
#28 0x080f1a97 in main ()

[Maia Everett (linneris)]

This issue does not occur if I run the program with UBUNTU_MENUPROXY="", but then I do not see the global menu, only the local one.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

I have a similar problem running shotwell that can also be worked around by setting UBUNTU_MENUPROXY="".

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Thanks for your feedback. Can you detail the versions you're using? lucid? maverick? indicator-appmenu, appmenu-gtk? Does the crasher occur with "simple" applications like gedit as well?

[Maia Everett (linneris)]

Lucid, with the latest PPA build. And no, it doesn't occur with most applications, only with WoW Model Viewer, and Shotwell 0.6 (from the upstream PPA) whenever I click anything.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Hi David,

I'm using Lucid with the shotwell PPA as well. gedit and other apps that integrate with the app indicator applet work fine.

ii indicator-applet 0.4.2-0lucid1 GNOME panel indicator applet
ii indicator-applet-session 0.4.2-0lucid1 Clone of the GNOME panel indicator applet
ii shotwell 0.6.0-1~lucid3 Digital photo manager

I'm using the shotwell from the yorba PPA (ppa:yorba/ppa)

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Hey Jelmer,

The SIGTRAP looks weird: it sounds more like wowmodelviewer is running under gdb and that it's g_log that's causing the app. to stop because it considers a "critical" message to be a show stopper, probably because there is a g_return_if_fail on its path.

I'll try the svn checkout procedure to try and make it crash myself.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Can't get the upstream shotwell to crash here. Either with an empty library, or with photos in it.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Unfortunately I don't have a a WOW data folder to try to reproduce the wowmodelviewer crasher :-(

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

I could only get shotwell to crash when I clicked on a particular photo or set, not immediately at startup.

Upgrading to Maverick (I was running Lucid) has made the problem go away.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

I can't recreate this, but the only thing that I can think of that could cause it is not getting the session bus. I've poseted a branch that checks for that and does not register the object in that case.