OpenCPN 2.1 Doesn't Open in Ubuntu 10.10

[demonboy]

Oh dear.

I've just downloaded Beta 2.2, successfully installed it, got a new link under Applications/Science and even got a nice OpenCPN icon to click on. Alas, same problem. No splash screen this time and the timer icon appears on my cursor as though it is opening the application... and then nothing.

[demonboy]

Double oh dear.

I have just tried the stable release of 2.1 on another 10.10 machine and I have the same problem. Are any of you successfully running OpenCPN on Ubuntu 10.10 or are you running earlier versions of Linux?

[cagney]

Originally Posted by demonboy

Double oh dear.

I have just tried the stable release of 2.1 on another 10.10 machine and I have the same problem. Are any of you successfully running OpenCPN on Ubuntu 10.10 or are you running earlier versions of Linux?

Your're spot on, and I should have remembered, or rather documented it in the first place.
I downloaded the stable 2.1, and had the same result as you. Running it through ddd this is what I get.

What I think has happened is that the very basic c library libc has been upgraded from 2.11.1 in Ubuntu 10.4 to 2.12.1 in Ubuntu 10.10.
This is major, and as the stable packages where compiled against the old libc they will not work with the upgraded libc.

I downloaded the old 2.1 source-code and compiled, but had similar problems never the less.
Dave, any insights in how the libc upgrade affects OpenCPN?

Demonboy, let's continue with 2.2.1207........
To run opencpn with ddd

ddd opencpn

If you don't see the floating box do this:
Goto Program->Run this brings up another floating box, don't enter anything, just press run again. This should start opencpn .....unles there is a segfault (crash ).

Thomas

[demonboy]

I think there was a segfault. I'm now trying to run 2.2 beta:

Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/opencpn...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) set args
(gdb) run
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x080cef95 in MyApp::OnInit() ()
(gdb)

[cagney]

Originally Posted by demonboy

I think there was a segfault. I'm now trying to run 2.2 beta:

Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/opencpn...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) set args
(gdb) run
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x080cef95 in MyApp::OnInit() ()
(gdb)

I thing we better set up your "development environment".

Do this

sudo apt-get install git-core cmake gpsd gpsd-clients libgps-dev build-essential wx-common libwxgtk2.8-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgtk2.0-dev wx2.8-header

Then try ddd again.
Thomas

[demonboy]

OK, done that and when I 'ddd opencpn' in Terminal I am still getting in DDD:

Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/opencpn...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb)

Whilst in Terminal it says

jamie@jamie-NC10:~$ ddd opencpn
Warning: XmStringGetNextComponent: unknown type 143005048

(Annoyed?  Try 'Edit->Preferences->General->Suppress X Warnings'!)
Warning: XmStringGetNextComponent: unknown type 143005096

[cagney]

Originally Posted by demonboy

OK, done that and when I 'ddd opencpn' in Terminal I am still getting in DDD:

Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/opencpn...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb)

Whilst in Terminal it says

jamie@jamie-NC10:~$ ddd opencpn
Warning: XmStringGetNextComponent: unknown type 143005048

(Annoyed?  Try 'Edit->Preferences->General->Suppress X Warnings'!)
Warning: XmStringGetNextComponent: unknown type 143005096

I think you forgot the last step, after starting ddd.

Press run in the floating box, or if this is not there

Goto Program->Run this brings up another floating box, don't enter anything, just press run again. This should start opencpn ....

Just ignore the output in the terminal after starting ddd.

Thomas

[demonboy]

Sorry Thomas but this is all I am getting after following your instructions:

GNU DDD 3.3.12 (i686-pc-linux-gnu), by Dorothea Lütkehaus and Andreas Zeller.
Copyright © 1995-1999 Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.
Copyright © 1999-2001 Universität Passau, Germany.
Copyright © 2001 Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.
Copyright © 2001-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/opencpn...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) set args
(gdb) run
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x080cef95 in MyApp::OnInit() ()
(gdb)

[cagney]

You have your segfault go to "Status -> Backtrace" and let us see a screendump.

I would guess that the "(no debugging symbols found)" message comes from compiling both with -g and -O3. O3 compiling has been added in the latest beta since 2.1.

Thomas

[demonboy]

Backtrace just says "No stack". Is something missing?

[demonboy]

Hi,

Continuing on with my misadventures of Opencpn in Ubuntu 10.10 I was recommended by Thomas to compile the thing myself. I tried this and I am still not getting anywhere

This is the latest:

jamie@jamie-NC10:~$ git clone git://opencpn.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/opencpn/opencpn
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jamie/opencpn/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 2996, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2111/2111), done.
remote: Total 2996 (delta 1740), reused 1574 (delta 827)
Receiving objects: 100% (2996/2996), 36.13 MiB | 5 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1740/1740), done.
jamie@jamie-NC10:~$ cd opencpn
jamie@jamie-NC10:~/opencpn$ mkdir build
jamie@jamie-NC10:~/opencpn$ cd build
jamie@jamie-NC10:~/opencpn/build$ cmake ../
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- *** Building opencpn 2.3.0 ***
-- Found wxWidgets: TRUE
-- 
-- *** Building PlugIns ***
-- *** Building grib_pi ***
-- 
-- *** Building dashboard_pi ***
-- 
-- *** Building opencpn  ***
-- Found GTK2_GTK: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so
-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so
-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so - found
-- Looking for gethostbyname
-- Looking for gethostbyname - found
-- Looking for connect
-- Looking for connect - found
-- Looking for remove
-- Looking for remove - found
-- Looking for shmat
-- Looking for shmat - found
-- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE
-- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE - found
-- Found X11: /usr/lib/libX11.so
-- GPSD Library support: enabled
-- Found gps: /usr/lib/libgps.so
-- Building with libgps includes
-- S57 ENC support: enabled
-- Garmin Host Mode support: enabled
-- Writing spec file...
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/jamie/opencpn/build
jamie@jamie-NC10:~/opencpn/build$ sudo make install
[sudo] password for jamie: 
Scanning dependencies of target GARMINHOST
[  0%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsapp.c.o
[  0%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpscom.c.o
[  1%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsmath.c.o
[  1%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsmem.c.o
[  1%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsprot.c.o
[  2%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsread.c.o
[  2%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsdevice.c.o
[  2%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsdevice_ser.c.o
[  3%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsdevice_usb.c.o
[  3%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsrqst.c.o
[  3%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpssend.c.o
[  5%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsserial.c.o
[  5%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsutil.c.o
[  6%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsusbread.c.o
[  6%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsusbsend.c.o
[  6%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/gpsusbcommon.c.o
[  7%] Building C object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/garmin_wrapper_utils.c.o
[  7%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/GARMINHOST.dir/src/garmin/jeeps/garmin_wrapper.cpp.o
Linking CXX static library libGARMINHOST.a
[  7%] Built target GARMINHOST
Scanning dependencies of target NMEA0183
[  7%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/NMEA0183.dir/src/nmea.cpp.o
In file included from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkcairo.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h:33,
                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:32,
                 from /home/jamie/opencpn/include/dychart.h:239,
                 from /home/jamie/opencpn/src/nmea.cpp:50:
/usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkpixbuf.h:37: fatal error: gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/NMEA0183.dir/src/nmea.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/NMEA0183.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
jamie@jamie-NC10:~/opencpn/build$

Please, please, please tell me what I'm doing wrong.

[SethDart]

Originally Posted by demonboy

Please, please, please tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Nothing wrong on your side ;-) This is due to a bug in cmake

The current workaround is to append /usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 to
GTK2_GDK_INCLUDE_DIR in CMakeCache.txt

See cmake.org Git - cmake.git/commitdiff for more info.

You shall try to ask Ubuntu to update or patch cmake to solve this bug.

[cagney]

Thanks SethDart.
Another option is to update to cmake 2.8.3.
Links in this post:http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...tml#post581737
Thomas

[demonboy]

Hi,

Very pleased there is a solution to this. However you are dealing with a Linux newbie here and the launchpad link you provided in the other thread makes little sense to me, Thomas. I can see:

Built files

Files resulting from this build:

• cmake_2.8.3-1~maverick~pgquiles1_i386.deb (3.9 MiB)
• cmake-curses-gui_2.8.3-1~maverick~pgquiles1_i386.deb (1.2 MiB)
• cmake-data_2.8.3-1~maverick~pgquiles1_all.deb (669.9 KiB)
• cmake-dbg_2.8.3-1~maverick~pgquiles1_i386.deb (38.9 MiB)
• cmake-doc_2.8.3-1~maverick~pgquiles1_all.deb (1.3 MiB)
• cmake-qt-gui_2.8.3-1~maverick~pgquiles1_i386.deb (1.3 MiB)

Am I installing one of these links? Sorry for the daft question, this is all new to me. Thanks.

[SethDart]

Originally Posted by demonboy

cmake_2.8.3-1~maverick~pgquiles1_i386.deb (3.9 MiB)

Only this one is required. The others are optional (graphical user interface, doc, ...) not required if you follow the steps described above.