Activity log for bug #110387

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2007-04-26 21:47:22 Kip Warner bug added bug
2007-04-27 11:51:53 Johnathon insight: status Unconfirmed Rejected
2007-04-27 11:51:53 Johnathon insight: assignee kirrus
2007-04-27 11:51:53 Johnathon insight: statusexplanation Hi, thanks for your report. Can you please post the result of running 'uname -a' on your system, and tell me which version of Ubuntu you are running?
2007-04-27 11:52:07 Johnathon insight: status Rejected Needs Info
2007-04-27 11:52:07 Johnathon insight: statusexplanation Hi, thanks for your report. Can you please post the result of running 'uname -a' on your system, and tell me which version of Ubuntu you are running?
2007-04-27 23:14:36 Johnathon insight: status Needs Info Confirmed
2007-04-27 23:14:36 Johnathon insight: assignee kirrus
2007-04-27 23:14:36 Johnathon insight: statusexplanation Nice, thanks. Confirming bug.
2008-02-14 02:09:19 Kip Warner bug added attachment 'KipInsight.patch' (Proposed distribution patch.)
2008-02-14 02:11:40 Kip Warner bug added attachment 'KipInsight.patch' (Corrected proposed distribution patch.)
2008-02-23 12:39:53 Johnathon bug added subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors for universe
2008-03-13 20:38:26 Kip Warner bug added attachment 'KipInsight.patch' (KipInsight.patch)
2008-05-24 12:25:57 Johnathon description Binary package hint: insight Whenever I load a wxWidgets application and click run, I get a pop up message box that will not go away no matter how many times I hit ok: "Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error" After much probing around and help on the insight mailing list, it turns out that it was built wrong. From people on the mailing list... > > > > Looks to me like something in this build of Insight is setting the > > > > shared library search prefix. I've had lots of bugs of people failing > > > > to set it, but this may be the first time I've seen it set > > > > unnecessarily... does "show solib-absolute-prefix" show anything > > > > enlightening? > > > (gdb) show solib-absolute-prefix > > > Prefix for loading absolute shared library symbol files is "/usr/share". > > > > > > Any help? > > When you (or whoever else) built that Insight, they must have passed > > --with-sysroot=/usr/share. I can't guess why, but it's wrong. Try > > again without that, or manually "set solib-absolute-prefix /." > > (there's no way to set it to an empty string but that's close enough). > It works now =) Kip SRU Details Impact: Renders debugger unstable and unsuitable for use. Which, of course, means that finding other bugs is harder. Severe to all package users, minimal to normal users. Development Branch: Not applicable - this is a packaging/build mistake. Patch: Attached. Named "KipInsight.patch" TEST CASE: 1. Install insight (...) 2. Run Insight (I use "insight" in a terminal) 3. Click on "View" > "Console" 4. Type "show solib-absolute-prefix" 5. See error. Regression Potential: Minimal - changes are made in the way the package is built, which may cause other problems, but its unlikely. Only one line is changed in the build configuration. Binary package hint: insight Whenever I load a wxWidgets application and click run, I get a pop up message box that will not go away no matter how many times I hit ok: "Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error" After much probing around and help on the insight mailing list, it turns out that it was built wrong. From people on the mailing list... > > > > Looks to me like something in this build of Insight is setting the > > > > shared library search prefix. I've had lots of bugs of people failing > > > > to set it, but this may be the first time I've seen it set > > > > unnecessarily... does "show solib-absolute-prefix" show anything > > > > enlightening? > > > (gdb) show solib-absolute-prefix > > > Prefix for loading absolute shared library symbol files is "/usr/share". > > > > > > Any help? > > When you (or whoever else) built that Insight, they must have passed > > --with-sysroot=/usr/share. I can't guess why, but it's wrong. Try > > again without that, or manually "set solib-absolute-prefix /." > > (there's no way to set it to an empty string but that's close enough). > It works now =) Kip
2008-05-24 12:26:48 Johnathon description SRU Details Impact: Renders debugger unstable and unsuitable for use. Which, of course, means that finding other bugs is harder. Severe to all package users, minimal to normal users. Development Branch: Not applicable - this is a packaging/build mistake. Patch: Attached. Named "KipInsight.patch" TEST CASE: 1. Install insight (...) 2. Run Insight (I use "insight" in a terminal) 3. Click on "View" > "Console" 4. Type "show solib-absolute-prefix" 5. See error. Regression Potential: Minimal - changes are made in the way the package is built, which may cause other problems, but its unlikely. Only one line is changed in the build configuration. Binary package hint: insight Whenever I load a wxWidgets application and click run, I get a pop up message box that will not go away no matter how many times I hit ok: "Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error" After much probing around and help on the insight mailing list, it turns out that it was built wrong. From people on the mailing list... > > > > Looks to me like something in this build of Insight is setting the > > > > shared library search prefix. I've had lots of bugs of people failing > > > > to set it, but this may be the first time I've seen it set > > > > unnecessarily... does "show solib-absolute-prefix" show anything > > > > enlightening? > > > (gdb) show solib-absolute-prefix > > > Prefix for loading absolute shared library symbol files is "/usr/share". > > > > > > Any help? > > When you (or whoever else) built that Insight, they must have passed > > --with-sysroot=/usr/share. I can't guess why, but it's wrong. Try > > again without that, or manually "set solib-absolute-prefix /." > > (there's no way to set it to an empty string but that's close enough). > It works now =) Kip SRU Details Impact: Renders debugger unstable and unsuitable for use. Which, of course, means that finding other bugs is harder. Severe to all package users, minimal to normal users. Development Branch: Not applicable - this is a packaging/build mistake. Patch: Attached. Named "KipInsight.patch" TEST CASE: 1. Install insight (...) 2. Run Insight (I use "insight" in a terminal) 3. Click on "View" > "Console" 4. Type "show solib-absolute-prefix" 5. See error. Regression Potential: Minimal - changes are made in the way the package is built, which may cause other problems, but its unlikely. Only one line is changed in the build configuration. ================ Original Description: Binary package hint: insight Whenever I load a wxWidgets application and click run, I get a pop up message box that will not go away no matter how many times I hit ok: "Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error" After much probing around and help on the insight mailing list, it turns out that it was built wrong. From people on the mailing list... > > > > Looks to me like something in this build of Insight is setting the > > > > shared library search prefix. I've had lots of bugs of people failing > > > > to set it, but this may be the first time I've seen it set > > > > unnecessarily... does "show solib-absolute-prefix" show anything > > > > enlightening? > > > (gdb) show solib-absolute-prefix > > > Prefix for loading absolute shared library symbol files is "/usr/share". > > > > > > Any help? > > When you (or whoever else) built that Insight, they must have passed > > --with-sysroot=/usr/share. I can't guess why, but it's wrong. Try > > again without that, or manually "set solib-absolute-prefix /." > > (there's no way to set it to an empty string but that's close enough). > It works now =) Kip
2008-05-24 12:27:34 Johnathon bug added subscriber MOTU Stable Release Updates
2008-06-11 17:07:17 James Westby title Insight was accidentally built wrong Insight shouldn't be built with --with-sysroot=/usr/share
2008-06-11 17:08:20 James Westby bug assigned to insight (Debian)
2008-06-11 17:18:00 James Westby insight: importance Undecided Medium
2008-06-11 17:18:16 James Westby insight: status New Confirmed
2008-06-11 17:18:16 James Westby insight: importance Undecided Medium
2008-06-12 16:20:21 Bug Watch Updater insight: status Unknown New
2008-07-17 20:33:38 Bug Watch Updater insight: status New Fix Released
2008-07-18 07:35:37 Luca Falavigna insight: status Confirmed New
2008-08-04 07:50:08 Launchpad Janitor insight: status Confirmed Fix Released
2008-08-04 08:15:26 Luca Falavigna insight: status New Confirmed
2008-08-04 08:15:26 Luca Falavigna insight: statusexplanation ACK from motu-sru. Please check if other stable releases are affected and prepare debdiffs accordingly.
2008-08-04 08:15:40 Luca Falavigna insight: status New Confirmed
2008-08-04 08:15:40 Luca Falavigna insight: importance Undecided Medium
2008-08-04 08:15:40 Luca Falavigna insight: statusexplanation
2008-08-04 08:15:56 Luca Falavigna insight: status New Confirmed
2008-08-04 08:15:56 Luca Falavigna insight: importance Undecided Medium
2008-08-04 08:15:56 Luca Falavigna insight: statusexplanation
2008-08-04 08:16:10 Luca Falavigna insight: status New Confirmed
2008-08-04 08:16:10 Luca Falavigna insight: importance Undecided Medium
2008-08-04 08:16:10 Luca Falavigna insight: statusexplanation
2008-08-04 11:26:17 James Westby description SRU Details Impact: Renders debugger unstable and unsuitable for use. Which, of course, means that finding other bugs is harder. Severe to all package users, minimal to normal users. Development Branch: Not applicable - this is a packaging/build mistake. Patch: Attached. Named "KipInsight.patch" TEST CASE: 1. Install insight (...) 2. Run Insight (I use "insight" in a terminal) 3. Click on "View" > "Console" 4. Type "show solib-absolute-prefix" 5. See error. Regression Potential: Minimal - changes are made in the way the package is built, which may cause other problems, but its unlikely. Only one line is changed in the build configuration. ================ Original Description: Binary package hint: insight Whenever I load a wxWidgets application and click run, I get a pop up message box that will not go away no matter how many times I hit ok: "Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error" After much probing around and help on the insight mailing list, it turns out that it was built wrong. From people on the mailing list... > > > > Looks to me like something in this build of Insight is setting the > > > > shared library search prefix. I've had lots of bugs of people failing > > > > to set it, but this may be the first time I've seen it set > > > > unnecessarily... does "show solib-absolute-prefix" show anything > > > > enlightening? > > > (gdb) show solib-absolute-prefix > > > Prefix for loading absolute shared library symbol files is "/usr/share". > > > > > > Any help? > > When you (or whoever else) built that Insight, they must have passed > > --with-sysroot=/usr/share. I can't guess why, but it's wrong. Try > > again without that, or manually "set solib-absolute-prefix /." > > (there's no way to set it to an empty string but that's close enough). > It works now =) Kip SRU Details Impact: Renders debugger unstable and unsuitable for use. Which, of course, means that finding other bugs is harder. Severe to all package users, minimal to normal users. Development Branch: Fixed in Debian in the same way that is proposed for the SRUs, package merged from Debian now. Patches: attached, see comments. TEST CASE: 1. Install insight (...) 2. Run Insight (I use "insight" in a terminal) 3. Click on "View" > "Console" 4. Type "show solib-absolute-prefix" 5. See error. Regression Potential: Minimal - changes are made in the way the package is built, which may cause other problems, but its unlikely. Only one line is changed in the build configuration. ================ Original Description: Binary package hint: insight Whenever I load a wxWidgets application and click run, I get a pop up message box that will not go away no matter how many times I hit ok: "Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error" After much probing around and help on the insight mailing list, it turns out that it was built wrong. From people on the mailing list... > > > > Looks to me like something in this build of Insight is setting the > > > > shared library search prefix. I've had lots of bugs of people failing > > > > to set it, but this may be the first time I've seen it set > > > > unnecessarily... does "show solib-absolute-prefix" show anything > > > > enlightening? > > > (gdb) show solib-absolute-prefix > > > Prefix for loading absolute shared library symbol files is "/usr/share". > > > > > > Any help? > > When you (or whoever else) built that Insight, they must have passed > > --with-sysroot=/usr/share. I can't guess why, but it's wrong. Try > > again without that, or manually "set solib-absolute-prefix /." > > (there's no way to set it to an empty string but that's close enough). > It works now =) Kip
2008-08-04 11:27:47 James Westby description SRU Details Impact: Renders debugger unstable and unsuitable for use. Which, of course, means that finding other bugs is harder. Severe to all package users, minimal to normal users. Development Branch: Fixed in Debian in the same way that is proposed for the SRUs, package merged from Debian now. Patches: attached, see comments. TEST CASE: 1. Install insight (...) 2. Run Insight (I use "insight" in a terminal) 3. Click on "View" > "Console" 4. Type "show solib-absolute-prefix" 5. See error. Regression Potential: Minimal - changes are made in the way the package is built, which may cause other problems, but its unlikely. Only one line is changed in the build configuration. ================ Original Description: Binary package hint: insight Whenever I load a wxWidgets application and click run, I get a pop up message box that will not go away no matter how many times I hit ok: "Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error" After much probing around and help on the insight mailing list, it turns out that it was built wrong. From people on the mailing list... > > > > Looks to me like something in this build of Insight is setting the > > > > shared library search prefix. I've had lots of bugs of people failing > > > > to set it, but this may be the first time I've seen it set > > > > unnecessarily... does "show solib-absolute-prefix" show anything > > > > enlightening? > > > (gdb) show solib-absolute-prefix > > > Prefix for loading absolute shared library symbol files is "/usr/share". > > > > > > Any help? > > When you (or whoever else) built that Insight, they must have passed > > --with-sysroot=/usr/share. I can't guess why, but it's wrong. Try > > again without that, or manually "set solib-absolute-prefix /." > > (there's no way to set it to an empty string but that's close enough). > It works now =) Kip SRU Details Impact: Renders debugger unstable and unsuitable for use. Which, of course, means that finding other bugs is harder. Severe to all package users, minimal to normal users. Development Branch: Fixed in Debian in the same way that is proposed for the SRUs, package merged from Debian now. Patches: attached, see comments. TEST CASE: 1. Install insight (...) 2. Run Insight (I use "insight" in a terminal) 3. Click on "View" > "Console" 4. Type "show solib-absolute-prefix" 5. See error. Regression Potential: Minimal - changes are made in the way the package is built, which may cause other problems, but its unlikely. Only one line is changed in the build configuration. More thorough test case: $ sudo apt-get install wx2.8-examples $ cd ~/Desktop $ /usr/share/doc/wx2.8-examples/examples/unpack_examples.sh samples/minimal Temp $ cp /usr/share/doc/wx2.8-examples/examples/samples/sample.xpm Test $ make -C Test/minimal Failure case: ==================================== $ insight --nw --quiet Test/minimal/minimal Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) r Starting program: /home/kip/Desktop/Test/minimal/minimal warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function. GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers and track explicitly loaded dynamic code. Error while mapping shared library sections: /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.8.so.0: No such file or directory. Error while mapping shared library sections: /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0: No such file or directory. Error while mapping shared library sections: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: No such file or directory. Error while mapping shared library sections: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6: No such file or directory. Error while mapping shared library sections: /lib/libgcc_s.so.1: No such file or directory. ... Success case: ==================================== $ insight --nw --quiet Test/minimal/minimal Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) r Starting program: /home/kip/Desktop/Test/minimal/minimal [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0xb6e48720 (LWP 30966)] (I'm not positive that the needed example is available on all versions) ================ Original Description: Binary package hint: insight Whenever I load a wxWidgets application and click run, I get a pop up message box that will not go away no matter how many times I hit ok: "Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error" After much probing around and help on the insight mailing list, it turns out that it was built wrong. From people on the mailing list... > > > > Looks to me like something in this build of Insight is setting the > > > > shared library search prefix. I've had lots of bugs of people failing > > > > to set it, but this may be the first time I've seen it set > > > > unnecessarily... does "show solib-absolute-prefix" show anything > > > > enlightening? > > > (gdb) show solib-absolute-prefix > > > Prefix for loading absolute shared library symbol files is "/usr/share". > > > > > > Any help? > > When you (or whoever else) built that Insight, they must have passed > > --with-sysroot=/usr/share. I can't guess why, but it's wrong. Try > > again without that, or manually "set solib-absolute-prefix /." > > (there's no way to set it to an empty string but that's close enough). > It works now =) Kip
2008-10-11 17:10:19 Luca Falavigna insight: status Confirmed Won't Fix
2008-10-11 17:10:19 Luca Falavigna insight: statusexplanation https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2008-September/000113.html: Feisty will reach EOL on Oct 19th, there is no time to fix it in time.
2008-10-28 20:53:01 Luca Falavigna insight: status Confirmed Incomplete
2008-10-28 20:53:01 Luca Falavigna insight: statusexplanation ACK from motu-sru. Please check if other stable releases are affected and prepare debdiffs accordingly. I'm unable to reproduce this on other stable releases, marking Incomplete for now, waiting for better testing.
2008-10-28 20:53:18 Luca Falavigna insight: status Confirmed Incomplete
2008-10-28 20:53:35 Luca Falavigna insight: status Confirmed Incomplete
2009-05-07 12:31:52 Sergio Zanchetta insight (Ubuntu Gutsy): status Incomplete Won't Fix
2009-07-26 21:03:11 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/karmic/insight
2012-03-12 06:58:52 JC Hulce insight (Ubuntu Dapper): status Incomplete Invalid
2014-11-21 19:06:49 Rolf Leggewie insight (Ubuntu Hardy): status Incomplete Won't Fix