lazarus crashes on file open or save
lazarus / 1-Linux

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TCase · 2010-09-02 13:33

I have installed Lazarus on my desktop M/C running Mepis 8.5.03 and on
an Asus eeepc 1000 running Kubuntu 10.04, both from Synaptic.  Both
compile and run without problems (that I have found so far) but both
crash when attempting to save or open source files.  The attached
image shows the dialog produced.  At this point Lazarus is effectively
dead as none of the Lazarus windows refresh The dialog is modal and
when closed Lazarus closes too.
I would really like to get this sorted as I used Delphi exclusively
back in the days that I used windows.

TC

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JuhaManninen · 2010-09-14 09:20

Some crashes like that were caused by some GTK themes, also under KDE.
You can try changing that.
However I recommend you to update to Lazarus trunk 0.9.29. It has huge
amount of improvement over the release version which is almost a year
old now.
Those crash issues are fixed, too.
Install FPC 2.4.x from your distro repos and then:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus#Getting_Lazarus_SVN
_development_version

Juha