GCompris core dumps at load time in kubuntu jaunty jackalope (alpha 3)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gcompris (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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nur alim | ||
Bug Description
I installed GCompris with this command line:
>sudo apt-get install gcompris
When I first tried to run GCompris from the "K" menu it started to launch but then exited silently.
I then ran GCompris with this command line:
>gcompris
which generated this error:
>Exception exceptions.
>in 'garbage collection' ignored
>Fatal Python error: unexpected exception during garbage collection
>Aborted (core dumped)
digging through the python code I found this file that used the module "Numeric"
/usr/share/
!explicitly installing the python-numeric package resolved the problem!
>sudo apt-get install python-numeric
I presume the package manager should have detected this dependency automatically when I originally installed GCompris
More system details:
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu.
> lsb_release -rd
>Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
>Release: 9.04
2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy packagename' or by checking in Synaptic.
>apt-cache policy gcompris
>gcompris:
> Installed: 8.4.4-1.1ubuntu2
> Candidate: 8.4.4-1.1ubuntu2
> Version table:
> *** 8.4.4-1.1ubuntu2 0
> 500 http://
> 100 /var/lib/
One solution is to add Numeric but this is somewhat silly because this activity was an experimental one that was uncomplete. It has been removed from the latest GCompris release 8.4.8. The correct fix for you is to provide the latest release. It includes several bugfixes and most important the intro voices that explains what to do in each activities.