gcompris crashes

Asked by drskartik

I have Maverick meerkat 64 bit running. I had installed Educational suite GCompris for ages 2-10, which was running well till few days ago. After recent updates I am finding that I am not able to open it now and this is what I get in terminal:
kartik@kartik:~$ gcompris
** Message: Binary relocation disabled

** (process:4983): WARNING **: exec_prefix NONE

package_data_dir = /usr/share/gcompris/boards
package_skin_dir = /usr/share/gcompris/boards/skins
package_menu_dir = /usr/share/gcompris/boards
package_locale_dir = /usr/share/locale
package_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/gcompris
package_python_plugin_dir= /usr/share/gcompris/python
Infos:
   Config dir '/home/kartik/.config/gcompris'
   Users dir '/home/kartik/My GCompris'
   Database '/home/kartik/.config/gcompris/gcompris_sqlite.db'

(gcompris:4983): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_window_set_type_hint: assertion `!gtk_widget_get_mapped (GTK_WIDGET (window))' failed
Segmentation fault
I didnt find the Tux paint also which was already installed along with this.
What could be the problem?
regards
Kartik

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Stéphane Chambrin (superstepho) said :
#1

Hi !
I'm experiencing the same problem with gCompris (no problem with TuxPaint).
I'm using a fresh system install of Ubuntu 10.10 32bits (I kept my home directory).
Deleting all config files for gCompris didn't help.

gCompris works fine from a live session on the same machine, and from a guest session initiated by the same user for whom the application doesn't work.
This last workaround is not too annoying, but far from satisfying.

In case anyone can help, here's the output of "gCompris --debug" :

$ gcompris --debug
** Message: Binary relocation disabled
** (process:6854): WARNING **: exec_prefix NONE
package_data_dir = /usr/share/gcompris/boards
package_skin_dir = /usr/share/gcompris/boards/skins
package_menu_dir = /usr/share/gcompris/boards
package_locale_dir = /usr/share/locale
package_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/gcompris
package_python_plugin_dir= /usr/share/gcompris/python
gcompris: gc_locale_set ''
gcompris: Requested locale '' got 'fr_FR.utf8'
Infos:
   Config dir '/home/schambrin/.config/gcompris'
   Users dir '/home/schambrin/My GCompris'
   Database '/home/schambrin/.config/gcompris/gcompris_sqlite.db'
gcompris: Database /home/schambrin/.config/gcompris/gcompris_sqlite.db opened
gcompris: Database is broken, it is copyed in /home/schambrin/.config/gcompris/gcompris_sqlite.db.broken
gcompris: Database tables created
gcompris: Database Integrity ok
gcompris: No users' groups for profile Default
gcompris: No activities for profile Default
gcompris: Request get_conf : SELECT conf_key, conf_value FROM board_profile_conf WHERE profile_id=1 AND board_id=-1;
gcompris: The screen_width=800,000000 screen_height=520,000000 ratio=1,000000
gcompris: Adding music/intro.ogg in the play list queue
gcompris: adding queue file (music/intro.ogg)
gcompris: ... get_next_sound_to_play : music/intro.ogg
gcompris: fx_play music/intro.ogg
gcompris: uri 'file:///usr/share/gcompris/boards/music/intro.ogg'
gcompris: Adding voices/$LOCALE/misc/welcome.ogg in the play list queue
gcompris: adding queue file (voices/$LOCALE/misc/welcome.ogg)
(gcompris:6854): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_window_set_type_hint: assertion `!gtk_widget_get_mapped (GTK_WIDGET (window))' failed
gcompris: Status=
gcompris: gcompris window is now mapped
gcompris: The screen_width=1440,000000 screen_height=900,000000 ratio=1,730769
gcompris: The screen_width=1440,000000 screen_height=900,000000 ratio=1,730769
gcompris: GCompris got the 11 signal, starting exit procedure
Erreur de segmentation

Stépho.

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Daniel Tschernatsch (daniel311) said :
#2

I've got the same problem here:

** Message: Binary relocation disabled
** (process:4568): WARNING **: exec_prefix NONE
package_data_dir = /usr/share/gcompris/boards
package_skin_dir = /usr/share/gcompris/boards/skins
package_menu_dir = /usr/share/gcompris/boards
package_locale_dir = /usr/share/locale
package_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/gcompris
package_python_plugin_dir= /usr/share/gcompris/python
gcompris: gc_locale_set ''
gcompris: Requested locale '' got 'de_DE.utf8'
Infos:
   Config dir '/home/xyz/.config/gcompris'
   Users dir '/home/xyz/My GCompris'
   Database '/home/xyz/.config/gcompris/gcompris_sqlite.db'
gcompris: Database /home/xyz/.config/gcompris/gcompris_sqlite.db opened
gcompris: Database is broken, it is copyed in /home/xyz/.config/gcompris/gcompris_sqlite.db.broken
gcompris: Database tables created
gcompris: Database Integrity ok
gcompris: No users' groups for profile Default
gcompris: No activities for profile Default
gcompris: Request get_conf : SELECT conf_key, conf_value FROM board_profile_conf WHERE profile_id=1 AND board_id=-1;
gcompris: The screen_width=800,000000 screen_height=520,000000 ratio=1,000000
gcompris: Adding music/intro.ogg in the play list queue
gcompris: adding queue file (music/intro.ogg)
gcompris: ... get_next_sound_to_play : music/intro.ogg
gcompris: fx_play music/intro.ogg
gcompris: uri 'file:///usr/share/gcompris/boards/music/intro.ogg'
gcompris: Adding voices/$LOCALE/misc/welcome.ogg in the play list queue
gcompris: adding queue file (voices/$LOCALE/misc/welcome.ogg)
(gcompris:4568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_window_set_type_hint: assertion `!gtk_widget_get_mapped (GTK_WIDGET (window))' failed
gcompris: Status=
gcompris: gcompris window is now mapped
gcompris: GCompris got the 11 signal, starting exit procedure
Segmentation fault

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