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Reputation: 10930

gst-browser fails to start

I have just installed gst-browser (VisualGST) through the Canonical Ubuntu repositories, so I tried to start VisualGST by running gst-browser on the command line. However, I am immediately greeted with an error:

a Smalltalk Stream:2: Abandon
a Smalltalk Stream:2: Error occurred while not in byte code interpreter!!
/usr/lib/libgst.so.7(+0x74c97)[0x7fb5fa5d1c97]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3ef20)[0x7fb5fa1aaf20]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0xc7)[0x7fb5fa1aae97]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x141)[0x7fb5fa1ac801]
/usr/lib/libgst.so.7(+0x2c6a6)[0x7fb5fa5896a6]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigsegv.so.2(+0xe3c)[0x7fb5f9f68e3c]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3ef20)[0x7fb5fa1aaf20]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_type_check_is_value_type+0x23)[0x7fb5d4e374f3]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(+0x20785e)[0x7fb5d551185e]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_list_store_new+0xa4)[0x7fb5d5436d94]
[1]    14556 abort (core dumped)  gst-browser

What is the cause and meaning of the error, and how can I start VisualGST properly?

GNU Smalltalk version: 3.2.5

EDIT:

This appears to be a known issue. There's a bug report from 2012 on Launchpad: Smalltalk browser does not launch.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 775

Answers (1)

tukan
tukan

Reputation: 17345

This appears to to be "known" issue. As I previously guessed the issue was in libraries link(age).

You can solve your issue either by installing - libgtk2.0-dev.

You can find the whole conversation here. Here is an excerpt:

Digging a bit further, I found that the module "gst-gtk-3.2.92.so" is linked against "libgtk-x11-2.0.so", which is (now?) only provided by package: gtk2-devel.

Your second option is to compile it from source. On Fedora 27 (again from the discussion and link above):

I'm on Fedora 27 and after a fresh install this gave me a working build:
sudo dnf install gcc git automake bison flex libtool libtool-ltdl-devel libffi-devel libsigsegv-devel cairo-devel gtk2-devel texinfo

git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/smalltalk.git

cd smalltalk

autoreconf -vi ./configure make

sudo make install
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For future referece you can find testing gst-browser gist.

Upvotes: 1

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