Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Tempelmann
Hi there, this is my first post. I've signed up here because I have a particular problem I like to discuss with the developers. I'm a long-time software developer, although I'm not a big fan of Unix and derivates. I am mostly developing for OS X, and used to do for classic Mac OS, so I'm more of

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Stéphane Graber
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 23:40 +0100, Thomas Tempelmann wrote: Hi there, this is my first post. I've signed up here because I have a particular problem I like to discuss with the developers. I'm a long-time software developer, although I'm not a big fan of Unix and derivates. I am mostly

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Tempelmann
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 23:52, Stéphane Graber stgra...@ubuntu.com wrote: ldd your binary Will at least give you the list of shared libraries that your binary is using an if not present, tell you so. Yes, it appears to find them all, mostly in /usr/lib32 and /lib32, which is expected, I

Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 14 March 2010 22:40, Thomas Tempelmann tempelm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, this is my first post. I've signed up here because I have a particular problem I like to discuss with the developers. I'm a long-time software developer, although I'm not a big fan of Unix and derivates. I am

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Tempelmann
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 00:26, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com wrote: I don't think an error is needed. Generally on Ubuntu you launch .desktop files of applications installed using Software Centre / Synaptic / apt. All of which are of correct architecture. I disagree. I think it's

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Evan
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Thomas Tempelmann tempelm...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 00:26, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com wrote: I don't think an error is needed. Generally on Ubuntu you launch .desktop files of applications installed using Software Centre /

Re: Call for Testing: Nouveau

2010-03-14 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, Please see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1428752 looks like VT switching does not work and also for a few other people as is apparent in the feedback wiki page. I'm trying to report this by running ubuntu-bug linux but at the end of uploading the report it aborts saying Cannot

Lots of Kernel related brakage in Lucid (amd64)

2010-03-14 Thread Scott Beamer
Just downloaded the latest nightly live CD and installed. After reboot computer freezes at splash screen. Reinstalled from a previous dialy Live CD (about a week old) and ran sudo apt-get-update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. Rebooted, screen freeze again at Ubuntu splash screen. Rebooted and

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Scott Beamer
Thomas Tempelmann spake thusly: ... I've created a 32 bit application that uses Gtk 2, which launches fine on the 32 Bit Ubuntu 9.10 default installation. But when I launch the same app on the 64 bit Ubuntu version, the following things happen.. [...] The problem is that Debian (and