Texmacs incompatile with Guile version

Hello!

As an high school teacher, I need to use Texmacs for producing
scientific texts.

However, in SL10.2, when trying to start Texmacs, a message error
appears saying that Texmacs is incompatible with Guile versions 1.8 and
above.

Is it possible that SuSE did pack packed together two interdependent but
incompatible packages ?

Can someone help solving this problem, please?

With best regards,
António

António Alexandre Cotta Veloso Godinho wrote:
> Hello!
>
> As an high school teacher, I need to use Texmacs for producing
> scientific texts.
>
> However, in SL10.2, when trying to start Texmacs, a message error
> appears saying that Texmacs is incompatible with Guile versions 1.8 and
> above.
>
> Is it possible that SuSE did pack packed together two interdependent but
> incompatible packages ?
>
> Can someone help solving this problem, please?
>
> With best regards,
> António

Hello!

The solution (the least) is to uninstall the SuSE 10.2 Texmacs package,
download and install from tarball from Texmacs site www.texmacs.org.

Everything went well, but when I start texmacs with as my own user,
there is a message error of "Segmentation default"; it's possible to
start texmacs from console logged as root, only.

Can someone help on this problem ?

Thanks in advance,
António

António Alexandre Cotta Veloso Godinho wrote:

.....
> The solution (the least) is to uninstall the SuSE 10.2 Texmacs package,
> download and install from tarball from Texmacs site www.texmacs.org.
>
> Everything went well, but when I start texmacs with as my own user,
> there is a message error of "Segmentation default"; it's possible to
> start texmacs from console logged as root, only.
>
> Can someone help on this problem ?
>
> Thanks in advance,

Hi António,

If root can do something and normal user can't that is permission problem.

The soultion is to compile the package as that user that will use it, or to
start debug permissions. It seems that some libraries can not be loaded
which is not handled proprely by main progam and it crashes instead to
exit. Starting program from console as normal user can give some messages
that can point to the source of problem.

--
Regards, Rajko.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal

Rajko M wrote:
> António Alexandre Cotta Veloso Godinho wrote:
>
> ....
>> The solution (the least) is to uninstall the SuSE 10.2 Texmacs package,
>> download and install from tarball from Texmacs site www.texmacs.org.
>>
>> Everything went well, but when I start texmacs with as my own user,
>> there is a message error of "Segmentation default"; it's possible to
>> start texmacs from console logged as root, only.
>>
>> Can someone help on this problem ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>
> Hi António,
>
> If root can do something and normal user can't that is permission problem.
>
> The soultion is to compile the package as that user that will use it, or to
> start debug permissions. It seems that some libraries can not be loaded
> which is not handled proprely by main progam and it crashes instead to
> exit. Starting program from console as normal user can give some messages
> that can point to the source of problem.
>
Hello !

I did try with root and with normal user. The message wasn't a crash and
is similar to "TexMacs inconpatible with Guile version 1.8 and above.Any
help should be appreciated"...

Thank you,
António

António Alexandre Cotta Veloso Godinho wrote:

> Hello !
>
> I did try with root and with normal user. The message wasn't a crash and
> is similar to "TexMacs inconpatible with Guile version 1.8 and above.Any
> help should be appreciated"...

I'll try to locate older Guile, and post that tomorrow.

--
Regards, Rajko.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal

Rajko M wrote:

> António Alexandre Cotta Veloso Godinho wrote:
>
>> Hello !
>>
>> I did try with root and with normal user. The message wasn't a crash and
>> is similar to "TexMacs inconpatible with Guile version 1.8 and above.Any
>> help should be appreciated"...
>
> I'll try to locate older Guile, and post that tomorrow.
>

You seems to be right. It looks that old version of TeXmacs is delivered
with new Guile. There is no version change from 10.1 to 10.2 and that
should mean that package is not recompiled. I have to ask somebody on
opensuse@opensuse.org mail list.

--
Regards, Rajko.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal

Rajko M wrote:

I should look in
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228035
before. It is known problem and for now it seems that only installing older
version of Guile can help.

--
Regards, Rajko.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal

Rajko M wrote:

> Rajko M wrote:
>
> I should look in
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228035
> before. It is known problem and for now it seems that only installing
> older version of Guile can help.
>

Well someone had found workaround.
Please see this:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=232997

--
Regards, Rajko.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal