kcheckers

[brianinmaine]

NEW! the attached no longer requires fronter - it runs native.

I removed some functionality:
No save game -> no keyboard to add a file name and cancel caused a hang
no open game -> if no save, why open
no selection of notation font -> don't need and I couldn't figure out how to change the title of the dialog

other than that, it seems to work fine. Let me know if you find an issue, OK?


original post:
I see twobob had this working (with Xephyr??) but I am trying to get this to be a regular extension.

I compiled this fine, installed fine, and can run it at the command line. When I run it through KUAL, I get this in the log:

Your Locale: "en_US" 
Prefix path: /mnt/us/extensions/kcheckers/usr 
Loading Qt translations failed. 
Loading KCheckers translations failed. 
*** glibc detected *** ./usr/kcheckers: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x000acc70 ***
Aborted

Any help?

[twobob]

hmmm.

Ill have a look.

#!/bin/sh
cd /mnt/us/extensions/kcheckers/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/us/extensions/kcheckers/lib:/usr/lib:/lib
export HOME=/mnt/us/extensions/kcheckers/usr
./bin/kcheckers

works okay I think.

maybe you have a stray glib kicking around.

[brianinmaine]

Originally Posted by twobob

hmmm.

Ill have a look.



works okay I think.

maybe you have a stray glib kicking around.

still doesn't work for me. I have 5.3.7, maybe that's an issue?
http://cvamshi.wordpress.com/2010/04...ext-size-fast/
says maybe different glibc versions??

I'm don't really know what I'm looking for? /lib/libc.so.6? or /usr/lib/libc.so?? maybe because it's running under fronter??

[knc1]

Originally Posted by twobob

hmmm.

Ill have a look.



works okay I think.

maybe you have a stray glib kicking around.

Was that test done in the same environment you had pokerTH running?

The build you did of pokerTH may have installed the Qt language files, which looks to be what Brian is missing.

[brianinmaine]

those qt language files issues don't seem to be a problem as it DOES work fine if I launch it from a command line in an ssh shell. I still see those things, but it runs fine. Using fronter it show other dialogs and allows me to start a harder game or whatever. Works very well. Thought it would be easy to make a button - I guess not

[knc1]

launch it from a command line in an ssh shell
Translates to:
'runs fine if run from a login shell' (ssh did a login when you connected.)

KUAL only provides another command line shell instance, running under the same user name that it is running under (root).
It **DOES NOT** provide a new login as user name root.
You get to code that yourself in your script.

Points to keep in mind:
*) You can always 'switch user' to the user name you already have.
*) The default user name for the 'switch user' command is 'root'.

so the command (while running as 'root' - which you are) would be:
su -l

Check if it works from a command line.
If it does, it will also work in a script to get a new 'login' shell instance.

Don't forget to 'exit' from this new shell when done, if your application does not do so for you.

[brianinmaine]

Hopes dashed!! I tried your helpful suggestion:
new ssh login, su -l, then extensions/kcheckers/bin/kcheckers.sh
still same weird error as above "*** glibc detected *** ./usr/kcheckers: free(): invalid next size (fast)"

Seemed like a great idea, I don't know why it doesn't work for me still?

[twobob]

did you switch out the paths like:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/us/extensions/kcheckers/lib:/usr/lib:/lib

?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by twobob

did you switch out the paths like:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/us/extensions/kcheckers/lib:/usr/lib:/lib

?

The new login shell **should not** inherit the existing environment - at least I don't think that it does.

you can check your environment by entering:
set
before and after the su -l (ell)

login shells also use different config files (at least bash does, not sure about Amazon Ash).

[baf]

Originally Posted by brianinmaine

I see twobob had this working (with Xephyr??) but I am trying to get this to be a regular extension.

I compiled this fine, installed fine, and can run it at the command line. When I run it through KUAL, I get this in the log:

Your Locale: "en_US" 
Prefix path: /mnt/us/extensions/kcheckers/usr 
Loading Qt translations failed. 
Loading KCheckers translations failed. 
*** glibc detected *** ./usr/kcheckers: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x000acc70 ***
Aborted

Any help?

This binary fails with the same error on my KT, even when run from command line.

[twobob]

On my list of stuff to dig through then.

[brianinmaine]

Originally Posted by knc1

The new login shell **should not** inherit the existing environment - at least I don't think that it does.

you can check your environment by entering:
set
before and after the su -l (ell)

login shells also use different config files (at least bash does, not sure about Amazon Ash).

Yes I switched out the lib path, will check on the env. Thanks so much!
I just tried deleting the whole directory, ripping it fresh from Debian, and tried it again - still same error, but for the:
Prefix path: /mnt/us/extensions/kcheckers/usr
changing to : /usr

It's so FUN to go bug hunting, isn't it?

[twobob]

like mountain climbing, but without the view

[brianinmaine]

Yaaa! I found this error only comes up if I don't use a newer (wheezy) version of libfreetype.so.6 instead of the kindle version. So now it works fine with FRONTER and a button and everything! Now I'll have to try to do the whole rename titles and recompile stuff like twobob does... a big project for me! But of course now I can play checkers in the meantime
ut oh! it's in QT, not GTK...

working version is in first post.

[Aeris]

Nice job, it works!

Even if it doesn't look so good on Kindle PW