Re: [Bug-gnubg] Compile from Snapshot on ubuntu - assertion failed g_type_init

[Thomas A. Moulton]

Yes that fixed it.

I am not sure what you mean by Track it down...

with the patch applied it says

' result is 'en_US.UTF-8e 'en_US.UTF-8

my set lang is still system

tom

Thanks.

Christian Anthon wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> the code should now be fixed so that GNU backgammon doesn't crash
> anymore. If you want to track down the setlocale issue apply the
> attached patch ('patch -p0 <patch' in the gnubg directory and
> recompile).
>
> Christian.
>
> On 9/1/07, Thomas A. Moulton <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > > Is your locale set up correctly? What does the 'locale' command tell
> > >       
> > address@hidden:~/gnubg$ locale
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_ALL=
> >
> >     
> > > you? What is the lang set to in your .gnubgautorc //
> > > .gnubg/gnubgautorc?
> > >
> > >       
> > set lang system
> >
> >     
> > > If the setlocale commands fails early it is possible that a call to
> > > outputerrf will fail because the gtk interface isn't set up yet. Try
> > > to comment out this line in set.c:
> > >
> > >  outputerrf(_("Language change failed"))
> > >
> > > and recompile.
> > >       
> > That helped...
> >
> > I did get
> >
> > (gnubg:6572): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> >
> > and then changed lang to
> >
> > set lang en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > and it came up fine
> >
> > so... since this confirms your idea... do you have a fix in mind?
> >
> >     
> > > Christian.
> > >
> > > On 8/31/07, Thomas A. Moulton <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >       
> > > > > gtype.c is part of glib, more precisely the glib object system. It
> > > > >           
> > > > appears to be an Ubuntu bug (why am I not surprised) and should be fixed
> > > > in the latest update of gtk. So update your system, rebuild gnubg, and
> > > > see if the problem doesn't solve itself.
> > > >         
> > > > > Christian.
> > > > >           
> > > > I found where the source changed to cause this problem I am seeing.
> > > >
> > > > July 10th
> > > >
> > > > gnubg.c
> > > > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnubg/gnubg/gnubg.c?r1=1.712&r2=1.714
> > > >
> > > > I am guessing that in the set languages changes you made that gtype
> > > > may be getting called a bit earlier than previously.
> > > >
> > > > Any idea what may fix it?
> > > >
> > > > (ie who eventually calls xx_g_type_init to keep gtk happy?)
> > > >
> > > > tom
> > > >
> > > >
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> >