swami crashes on starting

[Winko]

Not starting swami at all. Tried uninstall and reinstall, but not helping.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: swami 2.0.0+svn389-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-19.21-lowlatency 4.10.8
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-19-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Apr 16 13:53:25 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-18 (271 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: swami
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-04-14 (2 days ago)

[Winko (winko)]

swami crashed crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_fundamental()

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

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

I can confirm this issue. I also get an error message when attempting to run 2.0.0+svn389-4 on Ubuntu 17.04.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is now dead
http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-17-04-zesty-zapus-has-reached-end-of-life-upgrade-to-ubuntu-17-10-now-519360.shtml

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

dino99: You're right that 17.04 has reached end of life.

However, the issue is still present. I just tested and swami 2.0.0+svn389-5 fails to start on Ubuntu 17.10 and even bionic.

[S. Christian Collins (s-chriscollins)]

According to the Red Hat bug report for their Swami package, the Swami segfault is caused by an invalid pointer cast (with GPOINTER_TO_INT) on 64-bit systems. Link here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1541394#c2

A workaround is to use the older Swami version 2.0.0+svn389-3, which installs and works without issue on Ubuntu 18.04. You can get the packages here: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/swami/

First install libswami0_2.0.0+svn389-3_amd64.deb and then swami_2.0.0+svn389-3_amd64.deb, then lock the package version so Ubuntu doesn't try to update them to the newer, broken version.

[Hveem (krbjhvee)]

Still the same in:
4.15.0-64-generic #73-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 12 13:16:13 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Crashes with memory segmentation fault.

Did workauround:
A workaround is to use the older Swami version 2.0.0+svn389-3, which installs and works without issue on Ubuntu 18.04. You can get the packages here: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/swami/

First install libswami0_2.0.0+svn389-3_amd64.deb and then swami_2.0.0+svn389-3_amd64.deb, then lock the package version so Ubuntu doesn't try to update them to the newer, broken version.