Arch Linux

Are you using glib-perl (and the other perl packages) from testing?


BTW, here zim seg faults on x86_64. It starts fine on i686.

Yes, perl and glib-perl from testing, but zim gives the error above

I am on i686

I get an analogous error if I try to repackage zim from abs. This is the output of the build function:

Creating custom builder _build/lib/My/Builder.pm in _build/lib/My
Checking whether your kit is complete...
Looks good

perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/Cairo/Cairo.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr
Can't open perl script "Build": No such file or directory
Can't open perl script "Build": No such file or directory

After that the compilation is interrupted.

Ok, I upgraded to gtk2-perl and cairo-perl in testing and successfully repackaged zim against them.

Now, that error is away, but zim segfaults. I attach the output of 'strace zim' (it seems that it looks for things in a wrong path)

the attachment is empty.

try removing or renaming your configs: ~/.config/zim/

For me, that did the trick on x86_64.

Well, this works in the sense that after removing ~/.config/zim/notebooks.list (the other files have no impact) I can launch zim successfully. But, once I create a notebook again and so a notebooks.list is written again, zim will segfault the next time I try to launch it. Thus, zim is unusable.

Perhaps this leads to the conclusion that this is an upstream bug with zim and 5.10.0 perl?

Sorry for the empty attachment, I will reattach the strace as soon as I reach home this evening or sooner.

Here it is.

The segfault is caused by the perl <-> C interface with the Gtk2 modules. Zim creates an array of your notebooks and the segfault happens when the list is attached to the listbox widget in Zim::GUI::NotebookDialog.pm. The wierd thing is that if you start it in the perl debugger it works fine so I know the perl code is fine. Try "perl -d /usr/bin/zim" then the "r" command.

Yes, I confirm that it works under the debugger

Has this problem already been reported to the zim developer or is it useful if I report it now? The new perl is now in core and zim can be used only with the debugger (but the GUI freezes very often under the debugger - an independent proble, I guess).

Having the same problem - segfault when notebooks.list is present. Can also confirm that the list will work with the debugger, though I find simply launching with "/usr/bin/zim <path of desired wiki>" is an easier workaround.

I would guess this has been reported upstream, as the notebook selector is working again while using the bzr version. so it should be fixed once the next zim is released and our packages are rebuilt.

I also had to rebuild perl-gtk2-spell and perl-gtk2-trayicon against the new perl or it would hang before opening the notebook. after that zim doesn't report any errors, and after a few minutes of testing it seems to be working fine.

using: arch=i686, not testing.

zim 0.24 is released: http://zim-wiki.org

Compiled by hand, it works fine