Lazarus IDE stopped working
lazarus / 1-Linux

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jbowles · 2009-12-14 14:35

Hello all,

I searched the forum and did not find a solution.  I apologize if I
just missed it.

Anyway, I have had Lazarus up and running and wrote/compiled several
freepascal programs with it.  Yesterday, I tried to run Lazarus and
got the splash screen only, for just a couple seconds, then the splash
screen went away and I have no indication that the IDE is running.  I
don't see anything obvious in the System Monitor.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled both the IDE and FPC compiler, with
identical results.

I don't use Lazarus daily, or even weekly, so I'm not exactly sure
when it stopped working.  I suspect my recent upgrade from jaunty to
karmic had something to do with it.

Finally, I'm not much of an expert in Linux.  I've only recently
switched from the world of Windows, so I don't yet know very well how
to find where things are on the file system.

If it is helpful, I can post a screen shot of the splash screen, or
answer any questions about my system configuration.  You might need to
be very explicit in telling me where to look for the answers to your
questions, though.

Thanks,

Jeff

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Marc · 2009-12-14 16:52

first what would help is to tell us:
- what lazarus version you installed
- where you got this version
- how you installed
- what previos version you had
- if you are running 32 or 64 bit lazarus
etc.

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jbowles · 2009-12-14 20:27

Yes, I suppose I should have included at least some version
information!

Currently have Lazarus 0.9.26.2-2 installed, which I got through the
Synaptic package manager.  I don't know how to tell you where Synaptic
got Lazarus.

I installed it via the Synaptic standard method: right-click the
application I want in the list, choose "Mark for Installation" then
click the "Apply" button.  Several other packages were automatically
installed, including lazarus-ide, lazarus-src, lazarus-doc, all the
same 0.9.26.2-2 version.  Also fpc, fpc-utils, and fpc-source, all
version 2.2.4-3.

I don't know for sure what previous version of Lazarus I had
installed.  I installed it as described above in late August, if that
helps.

If there is a log file I can read which would contain better
information, just tell me where to look.

Thanks,

Jeff

I'm running the 32bit version of Lazarus, on 32bit Ubuntu (karmic).

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Marc · 2009-12-14 23:45

I don't use synaptic, but I assume an installation with it should at
least work.

Can you start lazarus from a command prompt (terminal) and see what
messges are printed there ?

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jbowles · 2009-12-15 00:48

OK - here's the terminal output from starting Lazarus from the command
line:

jeff@ubuntu:~/.lazarus/bin$ startlazarus
[WARNING] Out of OEM specific VK codes, changing to unassigned
[WARNING] Out of unassigned VK codes, assigning $FF
TLazarusManager.Run starting /home/jeff/.lazarus/bin/lazarus ...
/home/jeff/.lazarus/bin/lazarus: error while loading shared libraries:
libglib-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
jeff@ubuntu:~/.lazarus/bin$


It looks like I'm missing libglib-1.2.so.0 - is this part of some
package I can apt-get or otherwise easily replace?

Thanks,

Jeff

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jbowles · 2009-12-16 18:06

Can anyone tell me:
  a) How to install the older libglib-1.2.so for my Lazarus IDE to be
happy

          or, preferably

  b) How to configure my Lazarus IDE to use libglib-2.0.so, which is
what I currently have

Thanks!

Jeff

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Zoran · 2009-12-16 19:00

I managed to install Lazarus on Ubuntu 9.10 this way:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus#Short_version:_get_
Lazarus

On that page I followed instructions named "Short version: get
Lazarus" and it worked.

I don't know if that can solve your problem, but perhaps you could try
to uninstall what you got with Synaptic package manager and use that
procedure.

I am quite new to Linux, I installed Ubuntu just to try Lazarus there,
to see if my programs can be compiled in Linux.

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jbowles · 2009-12-17 01:31

From one newbie to another, thanks Zoran!

I was able to get Lazarus installed, and wrote and compiled a quick
"hello world".