[Lazarus] Lazarus crashing reproducibly on startup (64-bit Linux)

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:45:53 -0400
brian <brian at meadows.pair.com> wrote:

> On 03/31/2012 07:18 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:19:28 -0400
> > brian<brian at meadows.pair.com>  wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Well, I've done a bunch of testing with some virtual machines, plus a
> >> bunch of web searches looking for other threads on this error, and it
> >> seems to be plain that it's a multi-way incompatibility. If you are
> >> running Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) V12 on an AMD 64-bit CPU (and
> >> it doesn't matter whether you run a 32 or 64 bit version of the
> >> operating system) then Lazarus will crash, reproducibly, and that
> >> holds for any version of LAzarus between 0.9.28.2 up to a fairly
> >> recent svn version.
> >
> > I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition 64bit in virtualbox. And Lazarus
> > 0.9.31 does not crash here.
> >
> 
> And you're running on an AMD CPU?

Yes.
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor

 
> In that case, I'm absolutely baffled, because I've done nothing more 
> than install LMDE, get any upgrades, and try to install and run 
> Lazarus. Which version did you try installing first, the one from the 
> LMDE repos? If it's possible that you need to install the latest 
> version and no other, then that might explain it.

I downloaded the ISO, 
then did an upgrade, 
then installed the package "lazarus" and subversion to get the
development packages, 
then uninstalled lazarus, keeping the rest, 
then installed fpc 2.6.0 from zip, 
then downloaded fpc svn trunk, compiled, installed
then downloaded lazarus svn trunk, compiled, started
then \O/

 
> If you can confirm that you're running an AMD-based system, then 
> please let me know what version of Lazarus you used, and I will set up 
> another VM and try again.


Mattias