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| Author/Date | Linux newbie: "assert failed" error on run-scribe start |
| Sam Williams 04/03/2004 3:12pm | I recently tried Scribe on Windows and loved it. Now I've installed Mandrake 9.1 (last night) and one of my first tasks is to set up Scribe on this platform.
The problem: I get the following in a popup when I try to open the run-scribe shell script: "Assert failed, file: ../_Common/Gdc2/Filters/Png.cpp, line: 64 0" I click OK, the box disappears, nothing happens. What should I try? Email is one of the two major apps I need to make Linux feel like home, so I would really appreciate some help. Thanks. |
| Sam Williams 04/03/2004 3:20pm | PS. I have just run ldd ./scribe. Here is the output:
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0x40022000) liblgi.so => not found libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x40072000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0x40124000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x40147000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4027a000) Perhaps this will help? |
| Sam Williams 04/03/2004 3:31pm | PS. When I try to drag liblgi.so to /usr/lib, I get the following:
Access denied Could not write to /usr/lib/liblgi.so I realise that I am probably being incredibly stupid/ignorant about the basics of Linux, but throw myself on your mercy. Thanks again. |
| Sam Williams 04/03/2004 3:48pm | I logged in as root, copied liblgi.so to /usr/lib, logged back in as myself and linked to /usr/lib/liblgi.so from my Scribe program directory. I still have the same error as before. I now have no idea what to do. |
| Sam Williams 04/03/2004 3:52pm | PS. Oh - the output of ldd ./scribe is now:
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0x40022000) liblgi.so => /usr/lib/liblgi.so (0x40072000) libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x401c2000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0x40274000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x40297000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x403ca000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x403dc000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x403e5000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x403ed000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x403fb000) libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x404da000) libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x40501000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x40522000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40570000) libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x40573000) |
| fReT 04/03/2004 4:31pm | This error means that libpng is not available to decompress the graphics. Try:
slocate libpng.so |
| Sam Williams 04/03/2004 4:53pm | Thanks for the help... Ok, here's what I just did:
[sam@localhost scribe-linux]$ slocate libpng.so warning: slocate: could not open database: /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db: No such file or directory warning: You need to run the 'updatedb' command (as root) to create the database . [sam@localhost scribe-linux]$ su [root@localhost scribe-linux]# updatedb [root@localhost scribe-linux]# slocate libpng.so /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.5 I'm now getting the same 'assert failed' error. |
| Sam Williams 04/03/2004 5:06pm | Any more suggestions for me, please? |
| fReT 04/03/2004 6:39pm | What does this give you:
readelf -s /usr/lib/libpng.so | grep png_create_read_struct I think there should be a soft link from /usr/lib/libpng.so to /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 ? |
| Sam Williams 05/03/2004 2:08am | Unfortunately,
[sam@localhost scribe-linux]$ readelf -s /usr/lib/libpng.so | grep png_create_read_struct bash: readelf: command not found I'll try to install readelf tonight... |
| fReT 07/03/2004 6:17am | I think the issue is that Scribe is looking for 'libpng.so' and you don't have anything called that.
I'd try creating a soft link from /usr/lib/libpng.so to /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 with the 'ln' command. |
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