gcompris will not launch. It appears in the task bar, and then goes away.

[mattsmultimedia]

Binary package hint: gcompris

I recently installed Ubuntu 9.04, and Edubuntu addon 9.04. When I try to launch GCompris it appears in the task bar, and then just disappears. I do not get an error message or a reason why it happened.

[Graham Knap (graham-knap)]

Running it in a terminal shows the following. Maybe this will be useful to the Ubuntu developers.

$ gcompris
exec_prefix NULL
XF86VidMode: Compiled with XF86VidMode.
If you have problems starting GCompris in fullscreen, try the -x option to disable XF86VidMode.

** (process:12020): WARNING **: Binary relocation disabled
package_data_dir = /usr/share/gcompris/boards
package_locale_dir = /usr/share/locale
package_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/gcompris
package_python_plugin_dir= /usr/share/gcompris/python
Infos:
   Config dir '/home/XXX/.config/gcompris'
   Users dir '/home/XXX/My GCompris'
   Database '/home/XXX/.config/gcompris/gcompris_sqlite.db'
Exception ImportError: 'No module named Numeric' in 'garbage collection' ignored
Fatal Python error: unexpected exception during garbage collection
Aborted

[Graham Knap (graham-knap)]

Installing the "python-numeric" package resolves the problem.

This suggests two bugs in the gcompris package:

(1) gcompris is missing a dependency upon python-numeric

(2) python-numeric is marked as deprecated in favour of python-numpy, so presumably gcompris should be updated accordingly

[Graham Knap (graham-knap)]

If I understand correctly, a missing dependency is trivial to fix, so I think it should be feasible to fix this in jaunty-updates and also in karmic.

The latter issue (updating to python-numpy) would obviously require much more effort and should likely be addressed separately.