Re: Amaya freezes computer under Gentoo

Irene Vatton wrote:
> On Friday 23 February 2007 09:46, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I tried to install Amaya from source under Gentoo Linux (since there's
>> no ebuild) and compiled it --with-wx.
>>
>> The first time I run it and close it I get:
>>
>> 09:44:10: Deleted stale lock file '/home/bettini/.amaya-bettini'.
>>
>> (amaya:6418): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_remove: assertion
>> `GTK_IS_TOOLBAR (container) || widget->parent == GTK_WIDGET (container)'
>> failed
>>
>> Gtk-ERROR **: file gtkcontainer.c: line 2447
>> (gtk_container_propagate_expose): assertion failed: (child->parent ==
>> GTK_WIDGET (container))
>> aborting...
>> *** Amaya: Irrecoverable error ***Aborted
>>
>> If I then run amaya again, the computer freezes (yes, it's Linux but it
>> freezes ;-)
>>
>> anyone experienced this?
> 
> Yes, there is a problem with new GTK and/or Xorg versions.
> It seems that, probably due to a change in events schedule, a refresh message 
> is sent to a killed widget.
> We continue to investigate this problem.
> 
> By default amaya checks if there is another instance already running to send 
> the open request to that instance instead of starting a new one.
> I suspect in your case that the amaya instance is quite dead but is still 
> running.
> 
> Set the following environment variable to allow several amaya instances
> AMAYA_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=yes
> I hope it will solve your problem meanwhile we find out a better solution

Hi Irene

setting this environment variable allowed me to start amaya a second time.

After quitting it, the third time I ran it freezed my computer once again...

I'm using version 9.54... should I downgrade to a previous version?

thanks again
	Lorenzo

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