Segment faults on gwave after update to Ubuntu 14.04

[eld1e6o]

After update Ubuntu from 13.10 to 14.04, I cannot run GWave. I get a segment fault.
This problem persists if I make an apt-get purge gwave, apt-get autoclean and apt-get install gspiceui gwave.

***:~$ gwave
Violación de segmento (in english, segment fault)

Note that I tried to test it trough gspiceui, I can run simulations with gnucap but I cannot see the data with gwave.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gwave 20090213-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Apr 23 16:04:43 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-04 (354 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: gwave
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-23 (0 days ago)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

I also get a segmentation error when attempting to start gwave on 14.04. It also happens on Ubuntu Utopic. I suspect this might be a duplicate of bug 1302586.

[Dolf Andringa (dolf-andringa)]

I have the same. It is a segfault in GC_find_limit_with_bound () in libgc.so.1
I am running kernel:
Linux 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP x86_64

And the following packages:
guile-1.8 1.8.8+1-8ubuntu3 amd64
guile-1.8-libs 1.8.8+1-8ubuntu3
guile-2.0-libs 2.0.9+1-1ubuntu1
guile-cairo 1.4.0-3ubuntu2
guile-g-wrap 1.9.14-2ubuntu1
guile-gnome2-glib 2.16.2-1.1ubuntu
guile-gnome2-gtk 2.16.2-1.1ubuntu
geda 1:1.8.2-4
libgeda-common 1:1.8.2-4
libgeda42:amd64 1:1.8.2-4
gwave 20090213-4

A traceback from gdb is attached.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[M.Sameer (msameer1)]

Same issue on Ubuntu 14.04.1 with kernel 3.14.1

[agbemenu (asagbemenu)]

Same issue here. segmentation fault on Utopic

[TLRobb (terry-maximatcher)]

Segmentation fault (core dumped) on gwave stand alone or gspiceui.
Running under Xubuntu 14.04 - 32b, Linux 3.13.0-43-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP i686

[George (gpapadance)]

Same here
Segmentation fault (core dumped) after running gwave.

kernel 3.13.0-46-generic
ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Still reproducible in gwave 20090213-6 on Ubuntu Vivid.

[Melroy van den Berg (melroyvandenberg)]

still not solved :(

[John Dell (johnmdell)]

Still reproducible - is there no work around? (other than going back to an earlier version of Ubuntu?

[Scott Pitcher (scottypitcher)]

I had problems with the same bug while trying to use gspiceui. My workaround was to download Gaw from -

http://www.rvq.fr/php/ndl.php?id=gaw.?-.*

- build from source, install and use. Works.

[tec (terry-cadd)]

hi guys, save yourself the effort , it does not work on ubuntu testing.

Sat 20 Feb 01:48:50 GMT 2016

gaw3-20150228.tar.gz ;; build from source, installs ok

gwave found on sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/projects/gwave/files/gwave/
does not compile
missing guile/gh.h header file , something about moving to libguile.h after googling.

its a real mess

heres the shortened output after 2nd guile compile

root@debian:/usr/local/src/gaw3-20150228# gwave
;;; note: source file /usr/share/guile-gnome-2/gnome/gtk/gdk-event.scm
;;; newer than compiled /root/.cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/usr/share/guile-gnome-2/gnome/gtk/gdk-event.scm.go
;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
;;; or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
;;; compiling /usr/share/guile-gnome-2/gnome/gtk/gdk-event.scm
;;; compiled /root/.cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/usr/share/guile-gnome-2/gnome/gtk/gdk-event.scm.go
Segmentation fault
root@debian:/usr/local/src/gaw3-20150228# uname -a
Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 (2016-01-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@debian:/usr/local/src/gaw3-20150228#

[tec (terry-cadd)]

gaw is an alternative viewer to gwave.

[Sergio Callegari (callegar)]

Has now been broken for many years and release cycles. Having broken packages that remain unfixed only creates confusion. How about getting rid of it for good from 17.04?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gwave - 20090213-6.1

---------------
gwave (20090213-6.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload
  * Added make_stack.diff patch to remove use of
    scm_the_last_stack_fluid_var that was deprecated from guile in
    commit ec16eb7847895247be3438c25d2d27ce2e137b83 dated 19 Jun 2010.
  * Added std_menus.diff patch to replace gtk-menu-append and
    gtk-menu-bar-append with gtk-menu-shell-append, preventing
    the use of the append generic that is missing in guile-gnome.
    - Closes: #779990, LP: #1311839

 -- Patricio Paez <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:30:03 -0500

[Steve S (spamsteve04)]

Please note this problem still affects some of us.
I am running the current Ubuntu LTS, and gwave still does not work for me.
Is there something I am supposed to do besides apt-get update/upgrade?

steve@U430-lin1:~$ lsb_release --all
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
steve@U430-lin1:~$
steve@U430-lin1:~$ gwave
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
steve@U430-lin1:~$

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

>Please note this problem still affects some of us.
>I am running the current Ubuntu LTS, and gwave still does not work for me.
>Is there something I am supposed to do besides apt-get update/upgrade?

While the issue is fixed in 20090213-6.1, this is only available in Ubuntu 17.04 and later. If you want a fix for older versions of Ubuntu, please perform as much as possible of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure