Bug 451218

Summary: toped crashes on startup
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tim Wegener <twegener>
Component: topedAssignee: Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: s_krustev, thibault.north
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: 0.9.0-2.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Tim Wegener 2008-06-13 13:48:06 UTC
Description of problem:
The toped layout editor crashes immediately, subsequently launching bug-buddy.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
toped-0.8.6-2.fc9.i386
wxGTK-2.8.7-2.fc9.i386

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run 'toped' from the terminal
  
Actual results:
toped crashes, subsequently launching bug-buddy

Expected results:
toped layout editor window appearing

Additional info:
toped starts up properly in Fedora 8 (though with instsability issues after
using it for a while).

Comment 1 Tim Wegener 2008-06-13 13:48:06 UTC
Created attachment 309210 [details]
bug-buddy report

Comment 2 Svilen Krustev 2008-07-23 20:42:22 UTC
The problem is due to the lack of a proper GLX visual - most likely accumulation
buffers and/or double buffering.
The problem is not seen on previous Fedora versions, because (most likely) ATi
or nVidia drivers were used by the packagers.

To prevent the crash - a patch is submitted here (more than a month now -
Chitlesh ?). 
http://prdownload.berlios.de/toped/release_0.9_patch_652_678.patch

Nevertheless the program will not run normally without required GLX visual.


Comment 3 Chitlesh GOORAH 2008-07-26 12:54:40 UTC
Svilen, your patch isn't helping.

First it is doing reverse-patching.

Second:
./configure: line 24337: AX_CHECK_GL: command not found
./configure: line 24346: AX_CHECK_GLU: command not found

Third,
fails to start

Comment 4 Svilen Krustev 2008-07-26 15:43:09 UTC
Somehow a wrong patch ended up in the repository.The patch was replaced.
The new patch is:

http://prdownload.berlios.de/toped/release_0.9_patch_654_721.patch



Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-07-27 09:11:24 UTC
toped-0.9.0-2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2008-07-27 09:12:00 UTC
toped-0.9.0-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9

Comment 7 Chitlesh GOORAH 2008-07-27 09:12:54 UTC
I've explained the issue here:
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2008/07/fel-updates-on-toped-090-startup-crash.html

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-07-30 20:04:24 UTC
toped-0.9.0-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-07-30 20:06:18 UTC
toped-0.9.0-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Tim Wegener 2008-07-31 15:36:55 UTC
It at least starts for me now. However after using it for a while, looking
around a moderately sized GDS layout the system crashed. The screen went black
and flickered repeatedly (like mode switching). I couldn't ssh in from another
machine. It did respond to ctrl-alt-del, however, and rebooted.

This is probably a problem with the Intel graphics driver, as I've had similar
problems with some other apps. 

Comment 11 Chitlesh GOORAH 2008-07-31 17:38:06 UTC
Svilen Krustev is the main developer and he is taking the bug seriously. Perhaps
soon we will have a fix.

Comment 12 Svilen Krustev 2008-07-31 22:01:29 UTC
Tim,
I do appreciate you feedback. A couple of questions:
- your configuration (is that fc9?)
- if you think that's toped specific bug - I'm not sure this is the right place
to discuss it. Please feel free to continue updating toped bug list or to post
in the mailing list.

(In reply to comment #10)
> It at least starts for me now. However after using it for a while, looking
> around a moderately sized GDS layout the system crashed. The screen went black
> and flickered repeatedly (like mode switching). I couldn't ssh in from another
> machine. It did respond to ctrl-alt-del, however, and rebooted.
> 
> This is probably a problem with the Intel graphics driver, as I've had similar
> problems with some other apps.