fedora 11 install from yum, only flashes welcome screen
lazarus / 1-Linux

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olddelphiuser · 2009-10-13 03:05

I want to try Lazarus / fpc on linux fedora 11, gnome. I installed it
with yum install lazarus. It appeared to all work fine. When I try to
run it, the flash screen shows and then nothing. If I run it from a
terminal : /usr/lib/lazarus/startlazuus. It does the same thing with
the following warnings: Out of OEM specific VK codes.... Out of
unassigned VK codes, assignging $FF...
Tmain.IDE.ParseCmdlineOptions:PrimaryConfigPath='/media/.lazarus
SecondaryConfigPath='/etc/lazarus"
Note miscellaneous option file not found using defaults
Note codetools config file not found using defaults

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if I do a ps-a it shows up as running process.

What am I missing??? thanks robert

note /media/ is my home directory (don't ask, but that is where I need
it for an old app)
-- robert bible, October 13, 2009 02:12 AM

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Marc · 2009-10-13 08:47

maybe it is running on a different display ?

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olddelphiuser · 2009-10-16 19:55

I can't find it on any other display. I did the same install on
another fedora machine and everything worked fine.
But I can't figure out what is wrong on this machine.. Here is the
output:

[root@localhost media]# whereis startlazarus
startlazarus: /usr/bin/startlazarus
/usr/share/man/man1/startlazarus.1.gz
[root@localhost media]# /usr/bin/startlazarus
[WARNING] Out of OEM specific VK codes, changing to unassigned
[WARNING] Out of unassigned VK codes, assigning $FF
TLazarusManager.Run starting /usr/lib/lazarus/lazarus ...
[WARNING] Out of OEM specific VK codes, changing to unassigned
[WARNING] Out of unassigned VK codes, assigning $FF
TMainIDE.ParseCmdLineOptions:
  PrimaryConfigPath="/media/.lazarus"
  SecondaryConfigPath="/etc/lazarus"
NOTE: miscellaneous options file not found - using defaults
NOTE: codetools config file not found - using defaults

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ecch · 2009-10-16 20:46

Hello

You must execute with your user account not as root.

Regards

ecch

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olddelphiuser · 2009-10-16 22:27

It works under root.

I noticed that the file manager was doing strange things. I booted
from the installation disk and then ran
 badblocks /dev/sda2 >test  (sda2 is the disk)
 fsck -t ext3 -l test /dev/sda2
 answered yes when it said on a mounted drive.

It modified the disk.  the file manager started acting right and
Lazarus started working.

Here is its startup you can see where it was hung before.

root@localhost media]# /usr/bin/startlazarus
[WARNING] Out of OEM specific VK codes, changing to unassigned
[WARNING] Out of unassigned VK codes, assigning $FF
TLazarusManager.Run starting /usr/lib/lazarus/lazarus ...
[WARNING] Out of OEM specific VK codes, changing to unassigned
[WARNING] Out of unassigned VK codes, assigning $FF
TMainIDE.ParseCmdLineOptions:
  PrimaryConfigPath="/media/.lazarus"
  SecondaryConfigPath="/etc/lazarus"
NOTE: miscellaneous options file not found - using defaults
NOTE: codetools config file not found - using defaults
NOTE: help options config file not found - using defaults
TMainIDE.DoNewProject A
TCustomFormEditor.CreateComponent Form1:TForm1 True
TMainIDE.DoNewEditorFile END unit1.pas