[ubuntu] Issues with Amaya

[Pro-reason]

Rick, can you tell me exactly what package Amaya is installed from (do “dpkg -p amaya | grep Version” to find out)?

It should be “9.55~dfsg.0-1”.

Instead of using the menus, run Amaya from the command line (just type “amaya”). That way you'll get error messages that we can learn from.

[GrafxStar]

Okay Here you go!

grafxstar@jCrew:~$ dpkg -p amaya | grep Version
Version: 9.55~dfsg.0-1

 (amaya_bin:7187): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_colormap: assertion `!GTK_WIDGET_REALIZED (widget)' failed

although this critical error occurs the software does load and function.

GrafxStar

[Shobuz99]

Originally Posted by Pro-reason Rick, can you tell me exactly what package Amaya is installed from (do “dpkg -p amaya | grep Version” to find out)? It should be “9.55~dfsg.0-1”. Instead of using the menus, run Amaya from the command line (just type “amaya”). That way you'll get error messages that we can learn from.

Pro-reason,
Here's the version results:

rick@rick-desktop:~$ dpkg -p amaya | grep Version
Version: 9.55~dfsg.0-1

Then the results of running Amaya from command line:

rick@rick-desktop:~$ amaya
04:41:27 PM: Deleted stale lock file '/home/rick/.amaya_bin-rick'.

(amaya_bin:9407): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_colormap: assertion `!GTK_WIDGET_REALIZED (widget)' failed
0000: f0000001 00000300 f0000006 00000000
0010: f000000b 00000000 f000000c 00367d58
0020: f000000d 00367d58 f000000e 81240124
0030: f0000002 00000004 f0000003 00000004
0040: f0000004 01c9023a f0000000 f0002001
0050: f000000b 00000000 f210f110 00010000
0060: cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc
0070: cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc
******************************************
fire_buffer: DRM_VIA_PCICMD returned -22
*** Amaya: Irrecoverable error ***Aborted
rick@rick-desktop:~$

uh... any ideas?
thanks
Rick (shobuz99)

[Pro-reason]

Thanks, Rick.

Does it still do it if you do the following?

rm -fr ~/.amaya*
sudo apt-get install --reinstall amaya amaya-data

[GrafxStar]

Yes it does.

(amaya_bin:12201): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_colormap: assertion `!GTK_WIDGET_REALIZED (widget)' failed

[Pro-reason]

Originally Posted by GrafxStar Yes it does. (amaya_bin:12201): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_colormap: assertion `!GTK_WIDGET_REALIZED (widget)' failed

I wasn't talking to you! Are you called Rick too? Haha.

Your minor error message about Gtk doesn't matter. It's a common occurrence. As long as it doesn't make Amaya fail to start, don't worry about it. If you start it from the menus, you won't see all that anyway.

Your problem is solved.

I'm interested in solving Shobuz99/Rick's problem now.

[GrafxStar]

LOL, Yes I am Rick as well and I did not snap until I had posted.

Thanks Again for your help!

[Shobuz99]

Originally Posted by Pro-reason I wasn't talking to you! Are you called Rick too? Haha. Your minor error message about Gtk doesn't matter. It's a common occurrence. As long as it doesn't make Amaya fail to start, don't worry about it. If you start it from the menus, you won't see all that anyway. Your problem is solved. I'm interested in solving Shobuz99/Rick's problem now.

Pro-reason,
The problem is still there. I followed your instructions and this is the entire response:

rick@rick-desktop:~$ rm -fr ~/.amaya*
rick@rick-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall amaya amaya-data
[sudo] password for rick:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/4319kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 141434 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace amaya 9.55~dfsg.0-1 (using .../amaya_9.55~dfsg.0-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement amaya ...
Preparing to replace amaya-data 9.55~dfsg.0-1 (using .../amaya-data_9.55~dfsg.0-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement amaya-data ...
Setting up amaya-data (9.55~dfsg.0-1) ...
Setting up amaya (9.55~dfsg.0-1) ...

rick@rick-desktop:~$ amaya

(amaya_bin:6556): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_colormap: assertion `!GTK_WIDGET_REALIZED (widget)' failed
0000: f0000001 00000300 f0000006 00000000
0010: f000000b 00000000 f000000c 00367d58
0020: f000000d 00367d58 f000000e 81240124
0030: f0000002 00000004 f0000003 00000004
0040: f0000004 01c9023a f0000000 f0002001
0050: f000000b 00000000 f210f110 00010000
0060: cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc
0070: cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc
******************************************
fire_buffer: DRM_VIA_PCICMD returned -22
*** Amaya: Irrecoverable error ***Aborted
rick@rick-desktop:~$

Should I have done anything different?
Is the "fire_buffer: DRM_VIA_PCICMD returned -22" error referring to the problem?

Thanks again for all your help.

Rick (shobuz99)

[Pro-reason]

Shobuz99, do this:

gksu gedit /usr/bin/amaya

Where it says “XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1” add “G_SLICE=always-malloc”.

It will end up looking like this:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Script to launch amaya_bin
# Irène Vatton, 2007
#

AMAYA_INSTALLDIR="Amaya"
PREFIX=/usr/lib
AMAYAGUI="wx"

env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 G_SLICE=always-malloc $PREFIX/$AMAYA_INSTALLDIR/$AMAYAGUI/bin/amaya_bin ${1+$@}

Save and close.

Try running Amaya again. Does that help? (It's a suggestion I got from the Amaya mailing list.)

Of course, it shouldn't be necessary. You are running the same version as us.

The only difference I can see between your system and ours is that you are running Linux kernel 2.6.24-18-generic, whereas GrafxStar and I are running 2.6.24-19-generic and 2.6.24-21-386. Yours is older. There is a small chance that upgrading to a more recent kernel would help.

[Pro-reason]

Another thing to try is to make sure that you have the latest versions of all the Amaya dependencies properly installed.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libc6 libexpat1 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libjpeg62 libpng12-0 libraptor1 libstdc++6 libwww-ssl0 libwxbase2.6-0 libwxgtk2.6-0 zlib1g libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa