OK, I think I have a satisfactory answer. In short: previous versions copied the executable binary to the users home directory, but in newer versions, the executable binary was moved to /usr/lib so it is no longer needed to be copied to the home directory. However, if you had the old version and then upgraded, you STILL had the old binary in your home directory, which eagle would try to call to and SEG FAULT whenever you tried to zoom, edit a wire, etc.
LONG VERSION: The first time you run the closed binary it, it will create it's freeware license file, and place it in the directory where the executable was run from. Older Debian versions installed "system wide," which caused problems since the key and executable were then owned by root since you had to run as root in order to save the license file to /usr/share/eagle. The debian maintainer got around that by "Installing" the program to ~/.eagle by populating it with symlinks to /usr/share/eagle - so now everything is owned by the user (including the license key). The Debian wrapper file uses "exec -a" to execute the closed binary from /usr/lib/eagle/bin as if it was in the directory ~/.eagle/bin/ However, a couple of debian revisions ago, the closed binary was moved from /usr/share/eagle/bin to /usr/lib/eagle/bin , so it is NO LONGER copied over to ~/.eagle/bin along with everything else in the wrapper script. For some users, that change didn't cause a problem, but for users that upgraded there is a problem that: 1) they had the OLD closed binary that used to be in /usr/share/eagle/bin already copied over to ~/.eagle/bin from their previous installation 2) The desktop menu item and debian wrapper scripts calls the NEW binary located in /usr/lib/eagle/bin 3) When you try to zoom, edit wire, etc, the running process looks in ~/.eagle/bin for the compiled functions ----- BUT that is the OLD binary! (SEG FAULT!) Why it works for us "new installation" people: we don't have ANY closed binary in ~/.eagle/bin so it looks in our /usr/lib directory and finds the proper binary I think I'm satisfied with that explanation :-) I pulled that info from the following bug reports: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450529 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535868 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546237 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392414 By the way, I'm in mentors.debian.net to adopt this package, if you are a DD that can sponsor it, I'd appreciate it (the server is down, but do a package search for "Eagle") -- eagle crashes on: zoom into schematic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475891 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs -- universe-bugs mailing list universe-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs