[Lazarus] Lazarus on Debian "Wheezy"

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:36:33 +0000
>> Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Using FPC 2.6.4 or late 2.7.1, compiling trunk on Wheezy is OK but 
>>> running gives me
>>>
>>> The program 'lazarus' received an X Window System error.
>>> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>>> The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
>>>    (Details: serial 428 error_code 188 request_code 155 minor_code 23)
>>>    (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>>>     that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>>>     To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>>>     option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>>>     backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() 
>>> function.)
>>>
>>> Appears to affect Athlon (32- and 64-bit) and Intel (32-bit, don't 
>>> have 64). Does not affect Squeeze. Building with OPT='-O- -gl' still 
>>> doesn't allow me to get a bt.
>>
>> I just tested Wheezy 32bit on VirtualBox/Intel: it runs.
>> Lazarus trunk, fpc 2.6.4.
>>
>> Please open a terminal and start the IDE with --sync:
>> cd sources/of/lazarus
>> ./lazarus --sync --g-fatal-warnings
>>
>> What do you get?
> 
> Trunk (as of yesterday evening), 2.6.4, export OPT='-O- -gl', make all, 
> run with ./lazarus --sync --g-fatal-warnings.
> 
> The machines here are generally Debian with KDE as a desktop, but the 
> "Wheezy" systems are closely modelled on the older "Squeeze" ones. It 
> appears that if I run on the machine's own display it works, but if I 
> attempt to run Lazarus over SSH (a combination that works on all other 
> systems around here and with numerous programs on the test systems) it 
> fails with
..
> Is OK over a remote X session (i.e. running in Xnest). An initial 
> successful run to set up ~/.lazarus doesn't improve the situation over 
> SSH but gets it to the point where lazbuild works.
> 
> However I also find that a program built using Lazarus (IDE or lazbuild) 
> fails on that system (i.e. Wheezy) in the same way as the IDE.

32- and 64-bit are substantially the same. Qt works, so the problem 
appears to be Lazarus (and Lazarus-built programs) using gtk2 over SSH 
on Wheezy.

There might also be some minor Unicode display issues in Gtk2.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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