symbol lookup error in bochs and bochs-x

[Christian Ivicevic]

I wanted to run bochs which has worked with Oneiric 11.10 in Unity, but now I am using Pangolin 12.04 Beta2 with Gnome 3.4.0 and trying to run bochs, however I get this error

"bochs-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/bochs/plugins/libbx_x.so: undefined symbol: XpmCreatePixmapFromData"

and bochs exits. (bochs-x is installed as without it, bochs has crashed in Oneiric)

Specs:
1) Ubuntu precise 12.04
2) bochs version 2.4.6-4

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: bochs 2.4.6-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 12 20:18:43 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bochs
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Tux (tux3-hotmail)]

I've got exactly the same bug !
I've just updated to Pangolin and now bochs (2.4.6) crashes with the same error.

[Tux (tux3-hotmail)]

PS : Using bochs-sdl plugin in bochsrc "solves" the problem.

[harryc (abigrabbit)]

Tux (tux3-hotmail) wrote on 2012-04-29: #4
PS : Using bochs-sdl plugin in bochsrc "solves" the problem.

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How do you do that please?

[harryc (abigrabbit)]

The solution: http://overflowedstack.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/solve-bochs-crash-on-start-problem-under-ubuntu-12-04/

[halfdog (halfdog)]

A "smaller" solution without installing anything is to

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXpm.so.4

before starting bochs. Not clear, if this bug/solution only affects 32 or 64 bit systems.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Medium: Severe impact on non-core (although the LD_PRELOAD work around might be enough to push it down)
Triaged: Trivial to repeat

[francis (francis-ndangi)]

That's it,

I've got the same problem with bochs on ubuntu 12.10, and that was solved in modifying bochs displaying.

changing "x" library by "sdl" library.

[Arto Bendiken (artob)]

This problem still affects even Ubuntu 14.04. The aforementioned workaround of installing the "bochs-sdl" package and setting "display_library: sdl" in ~/.bochsrc resolves the problem.