[Lazarus] Lazarus crashes on launch - Ubuntu

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 06:07:38 -0400
Paul Breneman via lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> On 3/20/2019 5:02 AM, Mick Arundell via lazarus wrote:
> > Hi Team
> > 
> > I've recently install Lazarus 1.8.2, fpc 4.0.4 using normal apt-get 
> > routines
> > 
> > Ubuntu is Linux wildone 4.15.0-46-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 6 
> > 09:33:07 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > 
> > On launch an Access Violation message box jumps up "Access
> > violation, Press OK to ignore and risk data corruption. Press Abort
> > to kill the program"
> > 
> > Can anyone diagnose the problem for me or tell me how to find the
> > fault please?
> > 
> > I inspected /etc/lazarus/environmentoptions.xml and found that this
> > set of directories do not exist
> > 
> >          <Item1 Value="/usr/local/bin/fpc"/>
> >          <Item2 Value="/usr/bin/fpc"/>
> >          <Item3 Value="/opt/fpc/fpc"/>
> > 
> > I have already removed and reloaded several times. What should I do
> > next?
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you in advance, Mick Arundell
> >   
> 
> I think I fixed that last year on my Xubuntu system by starting
> Lazarus as root.  It needed root to update something.  Once it
> updated something I could start it okay as a normal user from then on.

I doubt that. Starting it as root might even increase the problem by
creating new files as root.


Mattias