Geany don't work

r2csx · April 30, 2011, 5:30pm

Hi!

I have problem with geany… on one pc geany works fine but on my lap I get segmentation fault message and nothing happens. Does anybody knows how to solve this?

both machines are running 11.4…

martin_helm · April 30, 2011, 5:48pm

r2csx wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> I have problem with geany… on one pc geany works fine but on my lap I
> get segmentation fault message and nothing happens. Does anybody knows
> how to solve this?
>
> both machines are running 11.4…
>
Works fine here so pleasec an you give the following infos:
32bit or 64bit?
which version of geany and from which repository?
for the first simply type


rpm -q geany

Do you also have geany plugins installed (it may as well be a plugin which
crashes)?
Run geany in a terminal till it crashes and post the terminal output.

r2csx · May 1, 2011, 6:18pm

it is 32-bit OS and I install it from standard repo. Version is geany-0.20-20.3 (without any plugins)

Just to be clear, when I try to start geany nothing happens, but when i try to start geany from console i get “Segmentation fault”

martin_helm · May 1, 2011, 6:49pm

r2csx wrote:

>
> it is 32-bit OS and I install it from standard repo. Version is
> geany-0.20-20.3 (without any plugins)
>
> Just to be clear, when I try to start geany nothing happens, but when i
> try to start geany from console i get “Segmentation fault”
>
This is for sure not the geany from the standard repo but from Gnome Apps
repo or similar. The standar geany has version 0.20-5.3 (which runs without
problems here but on 64bit including the plugins).

I would try the following:
Open yast -> software management
search for geany
select it and at the bottom you can view and see the different versions from
the different repos - change it to the standard repository (oss) and see if
that runs more stable. It may be that you introduced inconsistencies by
using a mixture of software from different repositories.

r2csx · May 1, 2011, 7:42pm

my bad… it’s from gnome apps repo but even when i use standard repo, error is the same…

thnx for helping me but i think i will install fresh copy of opensuse (64? :D)

martin_helm · May 1, 2011, 8:19pm

r2csx wrote:

>
> my bad… it’s from gnome apps repo but even when i use standard repo,
> error is the same…
>
> thnx for helping me but i think i will install fresh copy of opensuse
> (64? :D)
>
That is a bit heavy, before you do that you can disable the extra
repositories (maybe except packman), so that you have only oss, non-oss and
updates and then do a “zypper dup”. I think you have nothing to loose by
doing that if you consider reinstallation as solution.

r2csx · May 1, 2011, 10:45pm

I already do that

now all works just fine

thnx anywy

GaGtunGR · May 3, 2011, 7:36pm

I think I know the problem. This is bug in GTK or oxygen-gtk. When I tried to use oxygen-gtk theme fo GTK applications in KDE 4.6 and started geany I also saw segmentation fault. But when I switched to qt-curve geany worked fine. The similar problem was with nm-applet. It crashed because of missing icons in oxygen-gtk.

r2csx · May 5, 2011, 10:49am

maybe… after I was reinstalled my system, problem has appeared again after KDE update to 4.6.2

xorock · May 8, 2011, 8:17pm

Also have this problem after upgrading Gnome to v3. Definitely related to some of the gnome packages / configs.

Currently installed:
geany-lang-0.20-20.2.noarch
geany-0.20-20.2.x86_64

but used this one when Geany (from OSS repo) stopped working.