[brailleblaster] Re: Success and failure under Linux
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 07:21:59 -0500
Vic,
Good observations. I'm not sure about what to do next. Hopefully I can
get Vinuux up soonj. Ubuntu has been a big disappointment, because I
never could get Orca to work.
John
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:52:06PM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
> Success! BB now runs under Linux. It doesn't run very long but it does run.
> I get continual memory errors. Here is what I get in the terminal window:
>
>
> ***MEMORY-ERROR***: SWT[2097]: GSlice: assertion failed: sinfo->n_allocated
> > 0
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> I get this error when either of the edit boxes has focus quite often. It
> happens when I just type in text and also when I have opened a file. I don't
> think it has happened to me outside of one of the edit boxes. I am not
> positive of that, though.
>
> When the Welcome screen came up, there was no way to focus the welcome text.
> I only had the checkbox and the two buttons. I could read the welcome text
> with the flat review cursor.
>
> I could navigate the menus fine. Opening a file worked fine. It didn't save
> the directory I was opening files from on subsequent launches of the open
> dialog as it does in Windows. Every time it would open to the / directory.
> Opening files with the Recent Documents feature also worked fine.
>
> I am pretty sure translation was being done. Once I got to the Braille
> window and heard the first line of translated Braille before the program
> closed itself with the memory error.
>
> As far as I can tell, other than this memory error, things look pretty good.
> Any ideas how to fix this or diagnose further? One thing I did notice about
> the errors was that every time I saw the error the number in the SWT[2097]:
> part of the error was greater than it was the last time. It never was the
> same. I don't know if that means anything or not.
>
> Let me know where to go from here.
>
>
> Best regards from Ohio,
>
> Vic
>
>
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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