FS#48694 - [racket] Fail to launch GUI window

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Mark E. Lee (bluerider) - Friday, 25 March 2016, 23:09 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Thursday, 01 February 2018, 00:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Kyle Keen (keenerd)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Racket seems to fail to launch its GUI window, it returns with the following error:

Window->C: argument is not non-null `Window' pointer
argument: #f
context...:
/usr/share/racket/collects/ffi/unsafe.rkt:1231:12
/usr/share/racket/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wx/gtk/dc.rkt:55:2
/usr/share/racket/collects/racket/private/class-internal.rkt:3557:0: continue-make-object
/usr/share/racket/collects/racket/private/class-internal.rkt:3511:0: do-make-object
/usr/share/racket/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wx/common/backing-dc.rkt:120:4: get-cr method in backing-dc%
/usr/share/racket/pkgs/draw-lib/racket/draw/private/dc.rkt:1333:4: core1407
/usr/share/racket/pkgs/snip-lib/racket/snip/private/style.rkt:900:2: reset-text-metrics method in style%
/usr/share/racket/pkgs/snip-lib/racket/snip/private/snip.rkt:427:2: core772
/usr/share/racket/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wxme/mline.rkt:1108:9: loop
/usr/share/racket/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wxme/mline.rkt:1102:2: update-here
/usr/share/racket/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wxme/mline.rkt:1095:0: update-graphics
/usr/share/racket/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wxme/text.rkt:4875:2: core1596
/usr/share/racket/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wxme/text.rkt:5031:2: redraw method in text%
/usr/share/racket/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wxme/editor-canvas.rkt:1066:2: core1134
/usr/share/racket/collects/racket/private/more-scheme.rkt:148:2: call-with-break-parameterization
...ass-internal.rkt:565:42
...
about to suspend in atomic mode

Steps to reproduce:
Try to run some any GUI application in racket
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Closed by  Balló György (City-busz)
Thursday, 01 February 2018, 00:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Kyle Keen (keenerd) - Friday, 25 March 2016, 23:33 GMT
The DrRacket IDE works fine here, does that count as a GUI application?

(The references to 'wx' in your trace refer to a custom Racket file format, not the gui toolkit.)
Comment by Mark E. Lee (bluerider) - Sunday, 27 March 2016, 16:33 GMT
I can't load the DrRacket IDE either.
Comment by kevin (ggnag) - Thursday, 12 May 2016, 22:25 GMT
Dr. Racket IDE failed to load.
Comment by kevin (ggnag) - Friday, 13 May 2016, 01:24 GMT
Here is the error I got.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Monday, 29 January 2018, 21:46 GMT
Could you still reproduce this problem with the latest version (racket 6.12-1)?

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