[winswitch] xpra 0.14.6 traps on Ubuntu 12.04

Douglas Doole dougdoole at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 14:34:21 BST 2014


Thanks. Removing those two files did get me up and running again.

And my client is Ubuntu 12.04. (I'd love to move to 14.04, but the powers
that be haven't approved 14.04 for desktop use yet :-( )

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 12/09/14 20:02, Douglas Doole wrote:
> > Just upgraded my client to 0.14.6.
> (Judging by the big warning message below, your client must be running
> Ubuntu 12.04?)
> >  When I attempt to connect to my server
> > (already running 0.14.6 on Ubuntu 14.04) the client traps:
> >
> > $ xpra attach ssh:reorx:1
> > 2014-09-12 08:58:36,750 buggy Ubuntu swscale version detected: (2, 1, 0)
> > 2014-09-12 08:58:36,750 cowardly refusing to use it to avoid problems,
> set
> > the environment variable:
> > 2014-09-12 08:58:36,750 XPRA_FORCE_SWSCALE=1
> > 2014-09-12 08:58:36,750 to use it anyway, at your own risk
> > 2014-09-12 08:58:36,751  cannot import csc_swscale (swscale colorspace
> > conversion): unsupported Ubuntu swscale version: (2, 1, 0)
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >
> > 0.14.5 had no problems talking to the server.
> I can reproduce it, so I should be able to figure it out.
> In the meantime, I can offer this dirty workaround which should work for
> most Debian / Ubuntu distros:
> sudo rm -fr /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/codecs/csc_swscale
> sudo rm -fr /usr/lib/pyshared/python2.7/xpra/codecs/csc_swscale
>
> It is a very odd one because there is nothing in the changes from 0.14.5
> to 0.14.6 that are in any way related to "swscale", and even nothing
> that should be able to cause a segfault.
> They're all small python things, and I've just reviewed them all again.
>
> But there is one thing: these newer builds were made with the new Cython
> 0.21 (released 2 days ago) instead of Cython 0.20.2 which was used
> previously.
> It would be interesting to know which other builds are affected by this,
> if any.
> > If I can get you any other details, just let me know.
>
> Cheers
> Antoine
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