Geany fails to run. Segmentation fault.

Bug #1106415 reported by John Gay
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Raspbian
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Bug Description

A fresh install of Geany fails to run. No information available except Segmentation fault.
<PASTE>

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install geany
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  acpi-support-base acpid gtk2-engines-pixbuf libctpl2 libgpgme11 libgtkspell0
  libpth20
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  doc-base

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  geany
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,065 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,347 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main geany armhf 1.22+dfsg-2 [1,065 kB]
Fetched 1,065 kB in 8s (122 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package geany.
(Reading database ... 52663 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking geany (from .../geany_1.22+dfsg-2_armhf.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Setting up geany (1.22+dfsg-2) ...

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ geany -v
Geany-INFO: Geany 1.22, en_GB.UTF-8
Geany-INFO: GTK 2.24.10, GLib 2.32.4
Geany-INFO: System data dir: /usr/share/geany
Geany-INFO: User config dir: /home/pi/.config/geany
Segmentation fault
</PASTE>
Note it wants to unistall gtk2-engines-pixbuf despite it being required by geany.

Linux raspberrypi 3.2.27+ #250 PREEMPT Thu Oct 18 19:03:02 BST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ dpkg -s libc6 |grep ^Version
Version: 2.13-37+rpi1

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ reportbug -q --template -T none -s none -S normal -b --list-cc none -q geany
Warning: no reportbug configuration found. Proceeding in novice mode.
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.

Using 'pi@raspberrypi' as your from address.
Getting status for geany...
Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
Maintainer for geany is 'Geany Packaging Team <email address hidden>'.

Looking up dependencies of geany...

Rewriting subject to 'geany: none'
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From: pi@raspberrypi
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: geany: none
X-Debbugs-Cc: none

Package: geany
Version: 1.22+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
Architecture: armhf (armv6l)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.27+ (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages geany depends on:
ii geany-common 1.22+dfsg-2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2
ii libc6 2.13-37+rpi1
ii libcairo2 1.12.2-2
ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1
ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1.1
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5+rpi1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1

ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2
ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5+rpi1
ii multiarch-support 2.13-37+rpi1

geany recommends no packages.

Versions of packages geany suggests:
ii doc-base 0.10.4
ii libvte9 1:0.28.2-5

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Revision history for this message
Diederik (didi-debian) wrote :

Does this issue still occur?

I just tried installing an running geany and that went fine:
$ geany -v
Geany-INFO: creating config directory /home/diederik/.config/geany
Geany-INFO: Geany 1.24.1, C
Geany-INFO: GTK 2.24.25, GLib 2.42.1
Geany-INFO: System data dir: /usr/share/geany
Geany-INFO: User config dir: /home/diederik/.config/geany
Geany-INFO: System plugin path: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/geany
Geany-INFO: No user config file found, trying to use global configuration.
Geany-INFO: Added filetype Graphviz (58).
Geany-INFO: Added filetype Go (59).
Geany-INFO: Added filetype Genie (60).
Geany-INFO: Added filetype CUDA (61).
Geany-INFO: Added filetype Clojure (62).
Geany-INFO: Added filetype Cython (63).
Geany-INFO: Added filetype Scala (64).
Geany-INFO: unknown : None (UTF-8)
Geany-INFO: Quitting...

Revision history for this message
Diederik (didi-debian) wrote :

Note that that was on a jessie system.

Changed in raspbian:
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Raspbian because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in raspbian:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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